| Law & Medicine’s Core Curriculum is a comprehensive
educational package developed specifically to train physicians and healthcare
professionals on six foundational medical-legal issues. These core
topics have been compiled into six modules, each with an audio presentation
on CD, corresponding outline and supporting article. This material is created
by Victor R. Cotton, MD, JD, and professionally produced. Because of his
pertinent, useful content and engaging style, Dr. Cotton’s medical-legal
Core Curriculum is a must have.
The Law & Medicine Core Curriculum is available in hard copy as
shown under curriculum contents,
or online as web-based training through our E-Learning
Modules.
This complete educational package is ready-to-use and contains over
12 hours of medical-legal training. The audio presentations and individual
study materials provide patient centered, case based education, which can
also be used in the format of a morning or noon conference. |
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Residency Programs. Law & Medicine's Core Curriculum is
your complete resource to meet the ACGME educational requirements for accredited
residency programs in the areas of risk management, medical jurisprudence,
confidentiality and professional liability. These enduring materials provide
residents with a resource they will turn to again and again. More than
a textbook, more than a lecture by a healthcare lawyer – it is teaching
in context using the methodology your students understand. Give your residents
medical-legal training from someone who has been at the bedside, someone
who has the credentials to teach legal medicine effectively and accurately. |
"The law is inseparably linked to every aspect of the practice
of medicine. If our goal is to deliver the best possible patient care,
then a fundamental understanding of the law is as important as a fundamental
understanding of physiology and biochemistry."
| 1. |
A colleague asks for your friendly opinion of an ECG, are
you incurring liability if you answer? |
| 2. |
You learn that the treatment you just prescribed is actually an "off
label" use of the drug. How should you respond? |
| 3. |
You call a patient's home regarding a change in the dose of his blood
pressure medication. His wife answers the phone. Should you leave the message
with her? |
| 4. |
A managed care company will not pay for the drug of choice. If you
prescribe a less effective medication instead, are you responsible for
the consequences? |
| 5. |
During your discussion with the patient about his upcoming surgery,
you do not mention the extremely unlikely possibility that he may experience
chronic postoperative incisional pain. If he subsequently develops this
condition, have you breached his right of informed consent? |
| 6. |
If you exceed the manufacturer's recommended maximum dose for an opioid
analgesic, are you risking prosecution by the DEA? |
| 7. |
The literature is divided as to the best treatment option, but the
physicians in your community clearly favor one approach over the other.
Are you obligated to also favor and follow that approach? |
| 8. |
A patient who is diabetic refuses to begin using insulin. How often
should you ask him if he is willing to reconsider? |
| 9. |
A patient who is fully functional, but of below average intelligence,
refuses to have a biopsy of a suspicious lesion in her breast. Should her
decision be respected? |
| 10. |
Despite a scholarly and attentive approach, the patient's condition
is initially misdiagnosed. By the time the proper diagnosis is made, the
patient's condition has significantly deteriorated. Is the delay in diagnosis
a violation of the standard of care? |
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