Medical and Pharmaceutical Law

• Public Health and Health Care
• Constitutional Foundations of Legal Regulation of Health Protection
• Corporate Law
• Iatrogenic Offences: Peculiarities of Criminal Prosecution
• Criminal and Legal Issues of Official Malfeasance
• Medical Insurance Law
• Legal Regulation of Labour Relations with Health Workers
• Legal Regulation of the Circulation of Medicines
• Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmacy
• Biomedical ethics
• Forensic and Medical Examination of Medical Activity

• The master's programme ‘Medical and Pharmaceutical Law’ combines the study of theoretical and practical issues of the legal framework for protecting citizens’ health in various health systems. It is based on the principles of budget financing, social insurance, and private initiative
• The programme is unique in its comprehensive (interdisciplinary) approach to its content. During the training, students study: the legal foundations of the public health and healthcare system of the Russian Federation and various countries; the features of the functioning of healthcare entities; the legal foundations of the standardisation of medicines; the legal regulation of drug circulation and related issues of patent protection; control over offences in the field of drug circulation; the interaction of states in resolving issues of protecting the health of every person; provision of drugs for citizens, which is of vital social importance; implementation issues of the rights and obligations of legal entities in healthcare; legal liability in health care; criminal and civil proceedings; and issues in biomedical ethics and regulation in health care in the context of the introduction of new digital and medical technologies
• The academic programme has been designed taking into account the views of employers on the correlation of graduates’ competencies and job functions in their professional activities

Master’s students have an opportunity to take advantage of St Petersburg University’s extensive international links.

• The University of Greifswald (Germany)
• The University of Milan (Italy)
• The University of Passau (Germany)
• Universität Hamburg (Germany)
• Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
• Vilnius University (Lithuania)
• Charles University (the Czech Republic)
• The University of Belgrade (Serbia)
• The Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
• Peking University (China)
• Hanoi Law University (Vietnam)

There is an agreement with the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China on student exchange programmes. Master’s students can also do internships in foreign universities as part of interstate agreements of the Russian Federation.

• Standardisation of drug safety and quality assurance in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States
• St Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical Academy
• General issues in legal regulation of drug circulation in the Russian Federation
• Fundamentals of pharmacy and manufacturing of medicines
• Quality and safety assurance of medicines (good practices)
• Correlation of international, regional and national legislation in the field of drug circulation in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Legal issues in protection and maintenance of the pharmaceutical market of the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States
• Legal regulation of pharmaceutical activities
• Regulation of drug circulation
• Protection of rights of pharmaceutical entities
• Customs regulation of the pharmaceutical market
• Legal issues in protecting the Russian pharmaceutical market (supporting Russian producers and promoting national and regional brands in the domestic market)
• International legal regulation of the pharmaceutical market and drug circulation
• Legal issues in the organisation of personnel in the pharmaceutical business

Professions

The graduates are much-in-demand in all fields and areas of the healthcare profession, as the work of a lawyer is cross functional. Knowledge of the fundamentals of medical law will enable the graduates to work at:

• any medical or pharmaceutical organisation
• international organisations (for example, the World Health Organization), provided they have second-language skills
• federal government agencies of the Russian Federation, state-owned corporations, state and municipal enterprises, consulting companies, international bodies and organisations associated with medical and pharmaceutical activities

Some graduates have become successful lawyers, legal advisers to well-known federal healthcare providers of high medical technology, research institutes of the healthcare system, municipal hospitals and outpatient departments. Lawyers for healthcare and pharmaceutical organisations are much-in-demand.

The programme has been internationally accredited by the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA) as part of the institutional accreditation of the Faculty of Law, the Certificate dated 26 February 2021.