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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Because Emergency Medicine is a high-risk specialty, Emergency Physicians, Physician’s Assistants, and Advanced Nurse Practitioners frequently find themselves involved in litigation. 
  2. The course provides simple definitions of complex legal concepts, terminology, the process of litigation and specially designed hypothetical questions based upon common legal pitfalls with which the learner interacts, submits an answer and is offered an opportunity to ensure accurate understanding by comparing their response to the detailed “Model Answer”.
  1. The course is Broadly divided into 4 sections.
    1. SECTION 1
      1. A discussion of the law as it applies to the practice of medicine, includes concise definitions and examples regarding concepts including the following:
        1. Tort Law, Medical Negligence, Issues determining the Standard of Care, The burden of proof, informed care, and informed refusal.
        2. Duty, Breach, causation and damages.
        3. Other issues regarding emergency physician behavior including informed consent, false imprisonment, medical battery., and many others.
    2. SECTION 2
      1. A detailed overview of the law as it applies to limitations of duty, EMTALA, the duty of Hospitals or Health Care Institution,
        1. A detailed overview of competency, Capacity and the meaningful differences for the emergency physician.
        2. How the processes of medical licensure, credentialing, and privileging impact the provider in unforeseen ways.
        3. Medical legal and ethical considerations, including:
          1. Autonomy, Informed Consent and refusal, Substitute decision Makers and privacy and confidentiality.
          2. The use impact of discussing ethical principles in medical decision making, including: Autonomy, Informed consent, Justice, distribution of healthcare assets, resource allocation and “Sentinal” or triggering health care scenarios.
        4. Discussions of special populations in the emergency department, including.:
        5. Children, domestic violence patients, Geriatric patients, pain management patients, and patients with religious preferences regarding medical treatment
        6. High risk emergency medicine including:
          1. Agitation and altered mental status, “Against Medical Advice AMA)” departures, patient elopement, And physician countertransference.
    3. SECTION 3
      1. Presentation and review of specifically created but hypothetical and high risk clinical/legal situations.
      2. Discussions of best practice with respect to understanding and framing these high risk clinical/legal situations in terms of seeing the legal issues from the POV of the lawyer.
      3. Discussions of best practices in charting, consulting and what to do if you believe you may soon encounter a high risk situations.
      4. A detailed review of the different ways practitioners write the Medical Decision Making (MDM) Sections of their chart as both a Scientific and Document.
    4. SECTION 4
      1. The common mental health struggles of the physician and other emergency practitioners and discussed at length
      2. Strategies for understanding and making emotional sense of the negative affective states that occur during the litigation process are reviewed.
      3. Common strategies for understanding the underlying issues in play during deposition and trial are discussed.
      4. Common psychological tools that may be used by the practitioner during deposition and trial are discussed.
  1. Each section contains:
    1. Prerecorded high quality video lectures.
    2. Transcripts of the lectures.
    3. Summarized explanations of key legal concepts.
    4. A premade sample syllabus suitable for notetaking.
    5. Sample problems and detailed explanations.
  1. Because Emergency Medicine is a high-risk specialty, Emergency Physicians, Physician’s Assistants, and Advanced Nurse Practitioners frequently find themselves involved in litigation. 
  2. The course provides simple definitions of complex legal concepts, terminology, the process of litigation and specially designed hypothetical questions based upon common legal pitfalls with which the learner interacts, submits an answer and is offered an opportunity to ensure accurate understanding by comparing their response to the detailed “Model Answer”.
  1. The course is Broadly divided into 4 sections.
    1. SECTION 1
      1. A discussion of the law as it applies to the practice of medicine, includes concise definitions and examples regarding concepts including the following:
        1. Tort Law, Medical Negligence, Issues determining the Standard of Care, The burden of proof, informed care, and informed refusal.
        2. Duty, Breach, causation and damages.
        3. Other issues regarding emergency physician behavior including informed consent, false imprisonment, medical battery., and many others.
    2. SECTION 2
      1. A detailed overview of the law as it applies to limitations of duty, EMTALA, the duty of Hospitals or Health Care Institution,
        1. A detailed overview of competency, Capacity and the meaningful differences for the emergency physician.
        2. How the processes of medical licensure, credentialing, and privileging impact the provider in unforeseen ways.
        3. Medical legal and ethical considerations, including:
          1. Autonomy, Informed Consent and refusal, Substitute decision Makers and privacy and confidentiality.
          2. The use impact of discussing ethical principles in medical decision making, including: Autonomy, Informed consent, Justice, distribution of healthcare assets, resource allocation and “Sentinal” or triggering health care scenarios.
        4. Discussions of special populations in the emergency department, including.:
        5. Children, domestic violence patients, Geriatric patients, pain management patients, and patients with religious preferences regarding medical treatment
        6. High risk emergency medicine including:
          1. Agitation and altered mental status, “Against Medical Advice AMA)” departures, patient elopement, And physician countertransference.
    3. SECTION 3
      1. Presentation and review of specifically created but hypothetical and high risk clinical/legal situations.
      2. Discussions of best practice with respect to understanding and framing these high risk clinical/legal situations in terms of seeing the legal issues from the POV of the lawyer.
      3. Discussions of best practices in charting, consulting and what to do if you believe you may soon encounter a high risk situations.
      4. A detailed review of the different ways practitioners write the Medical Decision Making (MDM) Sections of their chart as both a Scientific and Document.
    4. SECTION 4
      1. The common mental health struggles of the physician and other emergency practitioners and discussed at length
      2. Strategies for understanding and making emotional sense of the negative affective states that occur during the litigation process are reviewed.
      3. Common strategies for understanding the underlying issues in play during deposition and trial are discussed.
      4. Common psychological tools that may be used by the practitioner during deposition and trial are discussed.
  1. Each section contains:
    1. Prerecorded high quality video lectures.
    2. Transcripts of the lectures.
    3. Summarized explanations of key legal concepts.
    4. A premade sample syllabus suitable for notetaking.
    5. Sample problems and detailed explanations.