LEGAL MEDICINE & MEDICAL ETHICS Model Curriculum For American Medical Schools & Health Sciences Centers

2009 – ABLM affiliated with:  American Association of Physician Specialists &  American Board of Physician Specialties. Diplomats of ABLM are Dual-Degreed MD-JD or DO-JD Individuals who are Board Certified in the Specialty of Legal Medicine. 24 Medical Schools offer MD-JD Programs ABLM Chairman S. Sandy Sanbar, MD, PhD, JD

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Legal Medicine & Medical Ethics

I. Medical Humanities 1. History of Legal Medicine (Wecht-Sanbar) 2. Ethics, Bioethics and Humanism 3. Communication, Competency and Professionalism 4. Human Rights, Research & Experimentation 5. Human Genome Project & Developments 6. Human Fetus Interests 7. Stem Cell Research 8. Organ Donation and Transplantation

II. Licensing, Credentialing, Privileging, Profiling and Impairment 1. Medical Education, Medical Boards and Licensure (Sanbar) 2. Medical Staff Peer Review, Credentialing and Privileging 3. Physician Profile Databases 4. Health Care Provider Impairment

III. American Law & Judicial Process 1. Contracts by Health Care Providers 2. Agency 3. Antitrust 4. Patents, Intellectual Property, and Licenses 5. American Law and Court System (Sanbar) 6. Pretrial Proceedings, Trial and Appeals 7. Alternate Dispute Resolution 8. Tort Reform

IV. Hospitals, Nursing & MCO 1. Liability of Health Care Entities 2. Liability of Managed Care Organizations 3. Nursing and the Law 4. Pharmacist Malpractice and Liability 5. Medical Product Liability 6. Liability for Clinical Trials Research

V. Medical Liability & Malpractice Section A 1. Patient Safety 2. Medical Errors 3. Disclosure and Apology to Injured Patient 4. Malpractice Causes, Defenses and Damages 5. Medical Malpractice Stress Syndrome 6. Risk Management and Quality Assurance 7. Telemedicine and Communication

Medical Liability & Malpractice Section B 1. Physician-Patient Relationship 2. Medical Records (Protected Health Information) 3. Spoliation of Medical Records 4. Competency and Capacity Determination 5. Informed Consent and Refusal 6. Negligence 7. Miscellaneous Torts

Medical Liability & Malpractice Section C 1. What to do if Sued 2. How to Prepare a Medical Report 3. Role of Liability Insurance Company 4. Role of Defense Counsel 5. Role of Personal Counsel 6. Expert Medical Testimony 7. Criminalization of Malpractice 8. Countersuits by Health Care Providers

Liability of Specialties Section A 1. Family and Internal Medicine 2. Clinical Pathology 3. Radiology 4. Geneticist 5. Obstetrics and Gynecology 6. Neonatology 7. Pediatrics

Liability of Specialties Section B 1. Emergency Medicine 2. Cardiology 3. Oncology 4. Neurology and Neurosurgery 5. Anesthesiology 6. General Surgery 7. Ophthalmology 8. Otolaryngology

Liability of Specialties Section C 1. Dentistry 2. Nursing 3. Urology 4. Plastic Surgery 5. Sport Medicine

Care of Special Patients 1. Children as Patients 2. Child Abuse 3. Domestic Violence 4. Abuse of Elderly Patients 5. Brain-Injured Patients

End-of-Life & Process of Dying 1. Pain Management: Law and Relief 2. Life Care Planning 3. The Process of Dying 4. Palliative Sedation 5. Assisted Suicide

Forensic Sciences & Medical Examiner 1. Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Illness 2. Forensic Pathology 3. Forensic Engineering 4. Forensic Toxicology 5. Forensic Criminalistics 6. Forensic Entomology 7. Forensic Odontology 8. Forensic Medical Information as Evidence 9. U.S. Medical Examiner & Coroner Systems

Business Aspect Of Medical Practice 1. Practice Organizations & Joint Ventures 2. Co-providers and Institutional Ventures 3. Physician as Employer 4. Health Insurance 5. Medical Liability Insurance 6. Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Public Health & Public Policy 1. Immunization 2. Reportable Illnesses 3. HIV-AIDS: Ethical and Legal Aspects 4. Occupational Health Law 5. Public Health Law 6. Legal Aspects of Bioterrorism

Federal Agencies and Mandates U.S. Food and Drug Administration HCQIA HIPAA EMTALA ERISA OSHA SSA

Glossary of Terms 1. Ethics and Bioethics Terms 2. Medical-Legal Terms 3. Medical Malpractice Terms 4. Estate Planning and Asset Protection Terms 5. Miscellaneous Terms