LAW620

Letter Grading

GPA SEMINARS

The advancement of health care and health science depends in large part upon robust and ongoing research that can evaluate effectiveness of a wide array of interventions designed to promote health. This research necessarily involves human or animal subjects which raises a host of questions about how to protect both the integrity of research methods and the safety and well-being of study subjects. The public and private institutions which engage in such research are subject to a complex body of federal and state laws that attempt to grapple with questions of consent, privacy use of technology, and the increasingly blurred line between clinical care and research among other issues. This course will offer students an intensive look at research compliance and ethics from the perspective of a large health sciences research institution. The course will be co-taught with UCSF counsel and compliance officers in order to provide a blend of legal theory and practice-based perspectives. No medical or scientific background is needed for this course.