Course Summary
Law and Ethics for Health Professionals is a multi-disciplinary one-semester course that will encourage you to critically examine the legal framework that underpins the accountabilities imposed on healthcare practitioners to promote safe patient-centred practice. You will refine your own ethical thinking and develop a deeper understanding of professionally acceptable behaviours appropriate to practice in the Australian primary healthcare system with application to the private sector. This course is designed to contribute to the development of evidence-based approaches to professional practice across streams within the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences