Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine

Medical Ethics and Legal Medicine is a conference is a Mexican Riviera cruise conference round-trip from San Diego.

Key Topics

• Regulation of medical practice - overview of federal and state laws
  • HIPAA, EMTALA, and Other Federal Mandates
  • Licensing, Credentialing, Privileging and Impairment Issues
  • Fraud and Abuse and Criminal Negligence
  • Affordable Care Act and Accountable Care Organizations
• Ethics & bioethics
  • Fetal Interests, Abortion and Stem Cell Research
  • Bioethics, Professionalism, and Communication
• End-of-life decisions - ethical and legal issues
  • Classification of Euthanasia
  • The Dying Process
  • Determination of Death
  • Physician Aid in Dying and Hospice Care
• Lectronic health records (ehr) versus electronic medical records (emr)
  • Meaningful Use Stages I, 2 (2014) and 3 (2016)
  • Current State of Implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT)
  • EHR Malpractice Liability
  • Electronic Informed Consent
• Medical and forensic expert witness and testimony
  • Deposition of Expert Witness
  • Federal and State Rules of Evidence Governing Expert Witnesses
  • Daubert Challenges of Experts
  • Direct and Cross Examination of Expert at Trial
• Federal and state regulation of pain management
  • REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) Program
  • Controlled Substances Act Standard of Pain Treatment
  • Pain Management State Guidelines, Laws and Rules
  • Monitoring Programs and Disposal of controlled substances
  • Addiction, Death and Pain Malpractice
• Professional medical liability & nursing malpractice
  • Medical Negligence: Causes, Prevention and Defenses
  • American Law and Judicial Process
  • Capacity, Competency, Informed Consent and Informed Refusal
  • Spoliation of Evidence in Medical Records
  • Malpractice Case Presentations
  • Liability of MCOs, ACOs, Hospitals, CRNAs, Nurses, PAs and Nurse Practitioners
• Official disability guidelines and ama guides in workers compensation and non-occupational injuries
  • Official Disability Guidelines
  • Evidence Based Medicine
  • Return to Work Guidelines
  • Rating Impairment under AMA Guides
• Medical malpractice mock trial

Who should Attend

• Attorneys
• Physicians
• Pharmacists & Dentists
• Psychologists