Health Sciences 2200A/B Lecture 19: Health Care Law Occupation
21 Oct 2016
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It involves working on policies and cases: ranging from clients seeking medical assistance to insurance coverage, regulation of health care institutions to occupational health and safety. Health care lawyers can choose between many different legal practices: serving clients directly, counseling agencies, working on policies. Skills: analytical and logical thinking, communication skills, negotiations skills. Responsibilities: make provisions to healthcare services and benefits, interpret health care regulations and statues, advise healthcare institutions, health care workers, doctors, etc. Most need a 3. 7gpa to get in: lsat: law school admission test. Tests reading comprehension, organization and management of information, and critical thinking: law school typically is for 3 years. There are 20 law schools in canada, and 7 are in ontario: have to pass the provincial bar exam. Regulation: health care law is a self-regulated profession, each province has their own regulatory body. Ontario- law society of upper canada: the canadian bar association.
