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4 Hours of Category I CME Credit David B. Mandell, JD, MBA Charles H. Mandell, MD Christopher R. Jarvis, MBA
Risk Management for the Practicing Physician is nationally accredited for 4.0 hours of Category I continuing medical education (CME) credits in risk management. This enduring material is approved for all specialties in all 50 states. The CME has been accredited by The Institute of Continuing Healthcare Education in Philadelphia. Co-written by a practicing physician, an attorney and a financial advisor, this 80-page monograph includes chapters on: providing care in today's malpractice environment, liability and the doctor-patient relationship, managing diagnosis-related liability, minimizing risks of miscommunication, managing high risk communication areas, managing the dangers of drug therapy, non-medical liability risks for the practicing physician, and liability in the new health care delivery system. New chapters that were added for the 2007 version include discussion of HIPAA legislation and case law and well as risk management topics in tele-medicine. There are self-assessment exercises and questions after each chapter, giving the reader ideas of how to implement the lessons of the text to their practice. |
