Check here the details of the modular program with testimonies from the students in the presentation made by Professor Moreno Rosset, deputy director of the course.

The program is developed in collaboration with the National School of Health and the Health Institute Carlos III, within the framework of the Joint Institute-National School of Health (IMIENS).

The field of health protection, healthcare and research Biomedical has had an exponential development in the last decades, a change that has not been foreign to the profound biotechnological transformations in general and biosanitary in particular. The legal systems, both national, international and supranational, have responded to these changes incorporating specific norms to regulate relationships within the so-called health sciences with special attention to people's rights. It split of a frame normative practically non-existent. The few standards that some States recognized provided partial and, in most cases, unsatisfactory solutions to new problems and new demands of a society surprised by an avalanche of novel biosanitary manifestations. In parallel, the Biomedical research has developed extraordinarily and also in this field there have been far-reaching legislative changes. In both cases, health professionals, the psychological treatment, researchers and also legal operators have been seen required to know and apply a very specific part of the legal system that regulates multiple aspects related to health, sanitation and biomedical research. & nbsp;

The training objective of this Modular Program is to allow the student to acquire a set of knowledge and skills that allow the development of professional activities related to the knowledge, analysis and practical application of the legislation relating to what, in Broad terms, it is called Health Law as well. as the proper field of Biomedicine with special reference to biomedical research and the various aspects that it comprises.

A singularity of this Modular Program is that together with the legal training that can be obtained, has also included the possibility of acquiring a specific training in Psychology of assisted human reproduction, configuring the University Expert in Assisted Reproduction with a Elective module (10 credits) on Psychology, Infertility and Assisted Reproduction lo which will allow health and psychological treatment professionals also acquire competences uniquely adapted to this field.

This Modular Program in Health Law and Biomedicine incorporates a varied educational offer that is reflected in 16 Modules that allow students to take 5 different degrees (3 University Experts, 1 Specialization and 1 Master) through which the student can select the teachings that better fit the profile you intend to achieve. The "Modular" system also empowers the student to progressively study different Modules obtaining the corresponding Expert degrees and Specialization and validate said degrees for obtaining the Master in Law Health and Biomedicine.

MODULES AND CREDITS ASSIGNED:

1. Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques: Medical Aspects: 5 Credits
2. Psychology, Infertility and Assisted Reproduction: 10 credits
3. Legislation on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques: 10 Credits
4. Biomedical Research (5 credits)
5. Biobanks (5 credits)
6. Legislation on Clinical Trials (5 credits)
7. Bioethics and Human Rights (5 credits)
8. Bioethics in Clinic and Research (5 credits)
9. Ethics and Bioethics Committees (5 Credits).
10. Right to health. Healthcare (5 credits)
11. Patient rights: self-determination, privacy, equality, right to treatment (5 credits)
12. Information and consent. Medical history (5 credits)
13. Data Protection (5 credits)
14. Regulation on the beginning and end of life: abortion and advance directives (5 credits)
15. Organ Donation and Transplantation (5 credits)
16. Final Master's Project

TITLES THAT CAN BE OBTAINED:

Combining the previous Modules, the following Titles can be taken:

• UNIVERSITY EXPERT DIPLOMA IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION (15 credits)

1. Assisted human reproduction techniques: medical aspects: 5 credits. Mandatory
2. Psychology, Infertility and Assisted Reproduction: 10 credits. Optional.
3. Legislation on Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques: 10 credits. Optional

• UNIVERSITY EXPERT DIPLOMA IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND LAW (15 credits

4. Biomedical Research (5 credits) Required
5. Biobanks (5 credits) Mandatory
6. Legislation on clinical trials (5 credits) Mandatory

• UNIVERSITY EXPERT DIPLOMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND BIOETHICS IN CLINIC AND RESEARCH (15 credits)

7. Bioethics and Human Rights (5 credits) Mandatory
8. Bioethics in Clinic and Research (5 credits) Required
9. Ethics and Bioethics Committee (5 Credits) Mandatory

• DIPLOMA OF SPECIALIZATION IN PATIENT RIGHTS (30 credits)

10. Right to health. Healthcare (5 credits) Mandatory
11. Patient rights: self-determination, privacy, equality, right to treatment (5 credits) Mandatory
12. Information and consent. Medical history (5 credits) Required
13. Data protection (5 credits) Mandatory
14. Regulation on the beginning and end of life: abortion and advance directives (5 credits) Mandatory
15. Organ Donation and Transplantation (5 credits) Required

• MASTER'S DEGREE IN HEALTH LAW AND BIOMEDICINE (60 credits)

To obtain the Master, the student can choose to

1. take 60 selected credits out of 15 modules that are offered; or
2. take one or more courses of Expert or Specialist of the offered in this Program, whose credits will be validated, and take, in addition, the credits necessary to complete the 60 required at this Master's level (for higher detail see the section "Itineraries and Modules").

The different degrees included in this Modular Program in Health Law and Biomedicine can be of interest for Graduates, Graduates and Doctors in any of the branches of Health Sciences, in Law, in Psychology, in Social Work, in Sociology, in Political Sciences and public and private sector officials and workers who carry out their work and professional activity in the field of health, healthcare and biomedicine in general.

Passing the different titles offered in this Modular Program will give the right to the Obtaining the corresponding UNED Title. The specific degrees are:

• University Expert Diploma in Biomedical Research and Law
• University Expert Diploma in Assisted Reproduction
• University Expert Diploma in Human Rights and Bioethics in Clinic and Research
• Diploma of Specialization in Patient Rights
• Master's Degree in Health Law and Biomedicine