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| COURSE DIRECTOR(S): |
Frank T. Flannery, M.D., J.D., COL, USA
Chairman, Department of Legal Medicine |
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| Legal Medicine 1998 |
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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 familiarize practitioners with the existence, operation, and utility of the National Practitioner Data Bank and its Public Use File. To review the medicolegal issues raised by implementation of automated Pap Smear rescreening techniques. To highlight medicolegal risks involved in evaluating rectal bleeding. To review recent court decisions and relate them to current medical diagnostic and treatment regimens. To examine how recent advances in medical technology, coupled with changes in the reimbursement structure by which medicine is delivered, have complicated medical decision making. To familiarize practitioners with the operation and advantages of system-wide credentialing practices, such as the Centralized Credentials Quality Assurance System adopted by the Department of Defense. To instruct practitioners on provider licensure and other legal issues raised by the implementation of telemedicine. To review the medicolegal complications caused by the marketing and withdrawal of the “Fen- Phen” diet medication.
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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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