Risk Management CME

Learn from Risk Management Experts

You’ll discover key strategies for protecting both your patients and your practice with this series of in-depth audio discussions focused on important topics in risk management and health care ethics. Led by Richard P. Kidwell, JD, Senior Associate Counsel and Vice President of Risk Management at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, medicolegal experts share their valuable insights on:

• Opioid prescribing pitfalls
• Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Preparting for and participating in depositions
• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including mediation and arbitration
• Issues with electronic records
• Avoiding potential fraud and abuse claims

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, the learner will be able to:

• Avoid potential fraud and abuse claims
• Create electronic records that will cover ongoing patient care and prevent or provide a defense to medical malpractice claims
• Prepare for and perform confidently when testifying at a deposition
• Understand the advantages of participating in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) rather than taking the riskier course of letting a lay jury decide a medical malpractice case

Intended Audience

Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and others interested in the education of risk management.

A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians will help you to:
• Utilize the behaviors of never-sued physicians and incorporate them into daily practice;
• Refrain from using specific physician behaviors that precipitate lawsuits;
• Recognize potentially litigious patients and put into practice methods for dealing with them
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors will help you to:
• Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events;
• Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events;
• Manage your ethical obligation to promptly and openly disclose a medical error to a patient and their family;
• Develop ongoing patient safety improvement efforts based on national standards and guidelines

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Medical Errors

Risk Management and the Art of Medicine will help you to:
• Identify physician behaviors that lead to malpractice lawsuits;
• Explain the four elements required to prove a claim of medical malpractice;
• Incorporate strategies you can use to reduce your malpractice risk; and
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management

The Human Side of Medical Errors will help you to:
• Deal with complex ethical issues that arise when caring for colleagues;
• Share bad news with patients or families compassionately and effectively;
• Participate in safe and efficient patient handoffs with other healthcare providers; and
• Recognize and respond appropriately to disruptive behavior that is endangering patient safety within the health care team.

Meets Special CME Requirements inConnecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management.

Using Systematic Procedures to Prevent Medical Errors will help you to:
• Use standardized procedures and checklists to reduce medical errors;
• Manage informed consent;
• Utilize rapid response teams; and
• Better approach communication difficulties.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Medical Errors.

The Virtual Lecture Hall courses are designed to meet specific state CME mandates, but they also apply to all licensed physicians regardless of state of licensure.
Examinations are not required for CME credit.

Find the Virtual Lecture Hall courses in State alphabetical order:
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont.

Find the Virtual Lecture Hall courses in order by groups of required topics:
• Cultural Competence;
• Domestic Violence
• End of Life-Palliative Care;
• Ethics;
• HIV-AIDS;
• Infection Control;
• Infectious Diseases;
• Medical Errors;
• Modes of Transmission;
• Patient Communications;
• Patient Safety;
• Prescribing Practices;
• Professional Responsibility;
• Risk Management.

CME is available in many groups including:
• Disclosure and Apology Series
• Patient Safety Series
• Improving Communications in Health Care
• Key Risk Areas
• Managing a Medical Malpractice Case

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Risk Management

There are many courses listed that are part of the licensure requirements for Florida physicians. They may also be taken for credit by non-Florida physicians.

Specialties covered inlucde:
Domestic Violence, End-of-Life Care, Prevention of Medical Errors, and HIV/AIDS, Internal Medicine, Cancer, Emergency Medicine, and more.

Target Audience: Multiple Specialties

The Pennsylvania Medical Society focuses on patient safety and risk management CME to help physicians meet state requirements in these areas.

Studies in Patient Safety is based on real patient safety incidents reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. Consult focuses on risk management and intouch helps improve communications with patients.

Domestic Violence: Screen to End Abuse helps physicians create an atmosphere of trust so patients will confide in them about abuse relationships.

Counter Details offers clinical CME usually produced in associating with the health care agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Consult and intouch are restricted to members only, while all other activities are also available to non-members.

Target Audience: Physicians (especially in Pennsylvania) focusing on Risk Management.