To: Students registered for Legal Iss Relevnt Hlthcare Adm - GMU HHS 750 X01, Wednesday 4:30 PM EDT beginning May 20, 2009
The required books for the course are: Problems in Health Care Law, 9th Edition, by Robert D. Miller
Both books should be available
at the GMU bookstore in time for the first class, which is scheduled
for Wednesday May 20 at 4:30 PM. Regarding the duration of our course,
I am still in the process of determining how many weeks we will be
meeting. Although our room is reserved for the entire Summer 2009
sessions period, we will not be meeting during that entire period;
instead, I expect that we can complete the course, as before, in a
period of time less in duration than the entire Summer 2009 sessions
period, depending upon the time we meet each week. And there may be a
weekly class or two that I am unable to attend because of other
commitments. I will discuss all the foregoing further with you during
our first class, when our calendar for the course will be provided
along with our curriculum and your reading assignments (the assignments
for prior terms are not necessarily the same as the assignments for our
impending term). Your grade for our course will be based upon your
submission in a timely manner of a term paper reflecting your original
work product of at least twenty business letter-size sheets in length
(footnotes, appendices and the like are in addition to such twenty
sheets) and upon your term paper verbal presentation (in person during
our class) and your class attendance and quality of class discussion
participation. We will discuss the subjects appropriate for terms
papers when we meet in class. Your attendence during every class is
expected and required, unless unusual and special circumstances prevent
attendance during a particular class, as I may determine based upon
your explanation.
In the meantime, your initial assignment, please, is to provide me
via email sometime within the next ten days with your CV that includes
your academic and work background; your goals overall in attending CHHS
and obtaining your degree; your professional aspirations; and any
specific areas of health law that you are interested in learning about
in addition to our overall curriculum. Note that I use my blog site:
http://www.healthlawyerblog.
to
provide information for my health law students. Although the Summer
term curriculum is not yet posted at that site, feel free to visit that
site to see what prior curricula have been. I modify the course
content in certain respects each term in order to assure that our
discussions reflect current developments, but overall we focus on your being able to respond to the following course objectives:
1. Describe legal principles for making professional and administrative decisions affecting health care service delivery.
2. Examine statues, regulations and case law relevant to health professional's licensure, including practices acts, contracts and employment law.
3. Explain state and federal legislative and regulatory activities related to quality oversight for health services.
4. Develop strategies for regulatory compliance for quality health systems, consistent with case law.
5. Develop conflict management and resolution skills to facilitate issue resolution with legal frameworks.
6. Compare fiduciary responsibility for healthcare systems.
I look forward to meeting you!
