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Annual Colloquium
The annual colloquium, which is held on a rotating basis at the
three institutions, provides students in the Program with an
opportunity to present and have their work critiqued by the
mentors, representing a range of disciplines and institutions,
and by other students engaged in health law and policy
scholarship.
Law
firms, government and health provider organizations (for
example, Health Canada, provincial Departments of Health,
Regional Health Authorities, provincial medical, nursing, allied
health professional, and alternative therapy associations, and
provincial hospital associations are also invited to send
participants to these colloquia. This mix provides students with
feedback from individuals working in the health care sector,
whether policy-makers or providers, and help create linkages
between students and potential collaborators and employers.
Boot Camp for Incoming Trainees
Trainees need certain research skills straight-out-of-the-gate
to help them frame their research projects, and thus outgoing
graduate students organize a Boot Camp designed for incoming
students each September. The Boot Camps focuses on informing new
students about the theoretical principles and practical
realities of research ethics, knowledge translation, and
multidisciplinary approaches to research. The Boot Camps would
concurrently develop the knowledge translation and leadership
skills of outgoing students while developing the research skills
of incoming students.
Health Law and Policy Courses
The following range of courses is currently offered at the three
of the participating institutions:
Dalhousie University:
Health Law; Health Care Ethics & Law; Advanced Medical
Malpractice Negligence; Health Systems Law and Policy; Health
Law Placement with the Capital District Health Authority or the
Nova Scotia Department of Health; Mental Disability Law;
Research Ethics; Clinical Ethics; and Topics in Ethics and
Health Care; Health Law and Policy Current Issues.
University of Toronto:
Medical Jurisprudence; Health Systems Law and Policy; National
and International Approaches to Reproductive and Sexual Health
Law; and Psychiatry, Mental Health and the Law; Research
Involving Humans: Ethics, Law and Regulation; Privacy, Property
and the
Human Body. The Faculty of Law offers the opportunity to do a
course-based LL.M. degree with a specialization in health law
and policy.
University of Alberta:
Law & Medicine, Health Care Ethics & the Law, Intellectual
Property; Mental Health Law, Contemporary Issues in Health Law:
Seminar Series, Health Law and Policy.
National Health Law Conferences
Students are exposed to leading research at our biennial
National Health Law Conference, which attracts between 120 and
200 participants including government decision-makers and
national and international scholars from diverse specialties.
The National Conference tackles health challenges such as
processes for fixing the basket of services covered by Medicare,
legal and ethical paradigms for nanotechnology and other
emerging technologies, and Supreme Court decision-making as a
driver of change in the health care system. Students are exposed
to important research and research methodologies, and given the
chance to network with each other, senior scholars and
decision-makers.
Seminar Series
The Dalhousie Health Law Institute, the University of Toronto,
Faculty of Law and the Alberta Health Law Institute all have a
seminar series in health law and policy. These seminar series
attract both speakers and participants from a wide range of
disciplines as well as from a wide range of institutions.
Students at each of the Universities can take courses based upon
the series talks.
Dalhousie University Seminar Series
University of Toronto Seminar Series
University of Alberta Seminar Series
Skills Workshop
Skills Workshop is organized by current students with guidance
from Program faculty, this Workshop centres on professional
issues and topics, such as research grant writing, pedagogical
skills, and research methodologies. Organizing the workshop
stimulates teamwork and leadership among the students and helps
them forge connections with faculty at different institutions
and with leading decision-makers.
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