Curriculum & Faculty
The online Graduate Certificate in Health & Hospital Law consists of three credits, taught over a period of eight weeks. The material focuses on both substantive legal and policy issues and basic legal research and writing skills. Topics to be covered include the following:
Module 1: Medical Malpractice
Module 2: Treatment Decisions for Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
Module 3: The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
Module 4: Physician Credentialing
Module 5: Healthcare Fraud and Abuse
How Will the Courses Be Taught?
Legal education is a highly interactive endeavor. In a traditional law school classroom, this interactivity is achieved through back-and-forth dialogue between the professor and students.
The online Graduate Certificate in Health & Hospital Law relies on a variety of innovative learning modalities to create a similar level of interactivity in the online environment. Examples include moderated discussion boards, individual and group-based problem-solving exercises, and one-on-one professor-student interactions. The low student-faculty ratio (no more than eight students per professor) promotes strong relationships between professors and students. Professors participate actively in discussion forums and Q&A boards and give students individualized feedback on all written work.
Faculty
The online Graduate Certificate in Health & Hospital Law will be team-taught by three professors, two of whom will focus on substantive legal issues, and the other of whom will focus on skills training.
For the session beginning in October 2010, the professors will be Carl Coleman, a tenured professor at Seton Hall Law School with nearly two decades’ experience in health law and policy, Kathryn Quaglia, an adjunct professor of health law at Seton Hall, and Helen Cummings, a senior member of the law school’s legal research and writing faculty who oversees the Master’s of Science in Jurisprudence program.