Upon successful completion of the learning experience, students will be able to: analyze the court system; identify the different types of legal entities and types of managed care delivery systems; describe the importance of understanding basic employment, discrimination, and harassment laws when hiring, promoting, and terminating employees; differentiate between federal and state law and parties to a lawsuit; identify behavior that is classified as criminal and differentiate criminal and civil causes of action; explain the elements necessary to make a contract and how express and implied contracts are formed; distinguish between a cause of action for negligence and one for malpractice and list the elements of each; analyze the phases of a malpractice trial; define the importance of health record credibility and who owns the medical record; distinguish between law, morals, ethics, and etiquette; distinguish between privacy, confidentiality, and privileged communication; identify some of the problems faced by medical professionals allocating resources and doing medical research and experimentation; recognize the impact of expanding technology on ethical questions involving birth and the beginning of life; articulate the need for a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order from the patient’s perspective; develop the student’s ability to recognize various legal issues facing the medical facility; and improve critical thinking skills.