Graduate Diploma in Health Law

Program Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Health Law is a flexible postgraduate program that provides a comprehensive understanding of contemporary legal and ethical issues in healthcare. Designed for both legal and non-legal professionals, it covers Health Care and Professional Liability, Information Rights in Health Care, and a range of elective units. This program enhances the career prospects of lawyers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals by equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the complexities of health law.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

A flexible, specialist postgraduate qualification in health law, this degree provides wide-ranging interdisciplinary coverage of contemporary legal and social issues in health care. It provides a unique opportunity for dialogue between these professions on current legal and ethical issues in health. If you are not ready to commit to undertaking the Master of Health Law, the Graduate Diploma in Health Law is a good place to start. This course is designed for lawyers or non-lawyers who wish to upgrade their qualifications or advance their career in legal or healthcare professions.

• Intake/s: Check semester start dates
• Location: Camperdown/Darlington University of Sydney | AND | Sydney CBD Castlereagh Street
• Study mode: Face to face
• Additional information: Credit points - 24

What you’ll study:

• You will complete 24 credit points, which is equivalent to 4 units of study.
• There are two compulsory units of study:
• Health Care and Professional Liability
• Information Rights in Health Care
• Students without a law degree must also complete the unit:
• Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System
• The remaining units of study are selected from a wide range of relevant electives.

Careers:

Career paths:

• Health law concerns the legal issues arising from the provision of health care services, the impact of new technologies on health care, the regulation of the health professions, and public health.

Postgraduate study in health law is suitable for legal professionals such as:

• Barristers
• Judges
• Magistrates
• Solicitors

As well as non-legal professionals such as:

• Doctors
• Dentists
• Health administrators
• Health advocates
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Psychiatrists

• Join Australia’s largest and most specialised coursework programs in law, with 80 percent of units offered on an intensive basis.

• Explore the latest developments within the practice and profession of law.
Domestic practitioners and international visitors teach 60 percent of the program.

• Acquire a postgraduate qualification from one of the world’s foremost law schools – ranked 16th in the world in the discipline of law by the QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2023.

• Credit your units towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.