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| COURSE DIRECTOR(S): |
Frank T. Flannery, M.D., J.D., COL, MC, USA
Chairman, Department of Legal Medicine |
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| Legal Medicine 1999 |
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Legal Medicine is an annual risk management and quality assurance journal accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The CME credit meets the criteria for Category 1 credit for the Physician's Recognition Award of the American Medical Association and Category 2A by the American Osteopathic Association. Each issue contains valuable clinical practice tips, quality assurance and risk management recommendations, case and literature reviews, and references.
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| CME CREDITS: 5 |
| (A final exam score of 70% or higher is required to pass this exam) |
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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To update practitioners on information and statistics in medical malpractice databases maintained by the Department of Defense for trend analysis for the purposes of risk management. To highlight new applications for DNA analysis, including important discoveries made by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. To review appropriate measures for practitioners when dealing with possible breast cancers in order to avoid diagnostic errors. To learn what a structured settlement is, and the benefits of structured settlements in medical malpractice litigation. To examine the medicolegal aspects of evaluating and treating febrile pediatric patients, using case studies as specific examples. To familiarize practitioners with Ultrafast Computed Tomography, its legal implications, and its exciting possibilities as a diagnostic tool. To consider the legal ramifications of informed consent, particularly in response to the rise of medical malpractice lawsuits involving Pap smears.
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FACULTY DISCLOSURE:
Views expressed in this course are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the military services, or the Department of Defense. Legal Medicine offers medicolegal education for health care providers and does not establish policy or define a standard of care. This course gives no specific recommendations concerning patient diagnosis or treatment, but instead is designed to highlight problem areas of liability in medical practice and facilitate risk management efforts. If legal advice is required, it should be obtained from appropriate military or other federal legal counsel or from a civilian professional for non-federal physicians.
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