Health Law Certificate Program

This innovative program is a glide path for practice in every manner of health care institution, organization or agency, including law firms that specialize in health care matters. You will pore over complex business and legal transactions, bioethics, patient care issues and the full spectrum of legal topics that arise in the operation of a health care institution. Theory and practice unite in courses taught by leading experts in antitrust, fraud and abuse, business transactions, disabilities and non-profit organizations. And real world externship experience is plentiful within Pittsburgh's extensive medical community. In this program, you also keep pace with the hottest topics in health law by attending the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's annual two-day Health Law Forum.

The Health Law Certificate Program is intended to give students interested in health law a basic grounding in the field, complemented by clinical experience and more in-depth study of advanced topics and closely related areas of law. Students are expected and encouraged to obtain the same broad background in law expected of all graduates for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Students must elect to enter the Program by the beginning of their second year of law school.  Students also select either the Administration, Finance and Governance,  Bioethics, Global Health and Human Rights, or Public Health track.