MEDICO-LEGAL ESSENTIALS COURSE

(Personal Injury)

COURSE INTRODUCTION

This Medico-Legal Essentials course will provide key skills, knowledge and technical information to allow participants safely to prepare and submit Medico-Legal reports in personal injury cases. This course is suitable for Doctors who are looking to improve or refresh their current Medico-Legal knowledge or for those who are interested in getting started in the Medico-Legal industry.

It is important to note that this course is not intended to cover Clinical Negligence matters; there is a separate course on that subject but the personal injury course does offer some guidance and will, naturally, deal with the common areas under the Rules.

The course covers a comprehensive range of relevant topics for Doctors undertaking Medico-Legal work, including:

• How to write quality Medico-Legal reports (with the opportunity to review sample reports with the lawyers themselves that many of our previous delegates have found extremely useful)
• Duties of the Expert
• The roles of the various "players" (client, claims management company, claimant solicitor, insurer, defendant solicitor, barrister, judge, other witnesses)
• Questioning techniques
• Court room skills
• Rules for giving evidence
• Mistakes to avoid

You will receive a Course Pack including a number of useful documents and course materials.

Click here to view the full Essentials Course programme.

COURSE DATES: 2022