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This course discusses the current medical malpractice environment, focusing on issues facing both diagnostic and interventional radiologists and also highlights risk management opportunities for all within radiology. Course preparation and production was funded by the ARRS Berlin Scholarship.
Learning Outcomes and Modules
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
– discuss how the medical malpractice environment potentially drives utilization of medical imaging
– state the most common reasons radiologists get sued
– describe changing societal expectations for radiologists’ communication of non-routine findings
– categorize the most common medical malpractice allegations against interventional radiologists and other radiology proceduralists
– outline criteria used by counts and professional societies to allow and guide expert testimony
– outline key stages of a medical malpractice lawsuit
Topics:
Module 1
Separating Fact from Fiction
Module 2
Perception and Interpretation: A “Miss” Does Not Always Mean Malpractice
Module 3
Mitigating Malpractice Risk through Improved Communication
Module 4
Informed Consent and Complications: Malpractice Considerations
Module 5
The Expert Witness: Friend, Foe, or You?
Module 6
You’ve Been Named in a Lawsuit: What to Expect
Date of Release : June 4th 2020
Expiration Date : June 4th 2023
