DT Ortho-Preferred Risk Management Home Study Volume 3

Informed Consent, “Jousting” and Sexual Impropriety

© 2023 by Data Trace Publishing Company - All rights reserved - United States of America

Published by
Data Trace Publishing Company
P.O. Box 1230
Brooklandville, Maryland 21022-9978
(www.datatrace.com)

This course is presented for general educational purposes only. In publishing this program, neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering legal, medical, or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, please contact your medical malpractice carrier’s risk management department.

Accreditation Information

Overview
This program aims to provide the orthopaedic surgeon with the educational tools necessary to lower medical malpractice exposure by generating awareness of emerging medical liability risks so that proactive steps may be taken to avoid such risks thereby improving patient outcomes.

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT

Purpose

The Institute for Advanced Medical Education’s (IAME) mission is to raise the bar in Continuing Medical Education (CME) by going beyond the minimum requirements for CME and extending a vision that continues to reach new levels. IAME’s purpose is to provide educational activities that lead to improved delivery of patient care. Physician participants are provided with high quality educational opportunities designed to improve practice-based skills in different healthcare settings.

Content

To accomplish its mission, IAME’s CME programs will develop educational content:

• That is evidence-based, commercially unbiased, and employs effective adult learning principles;
• That educates physicians in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, emerging technologies, procedures, and interventions in medicine and practice-related needs;
• That continually responds to identified needs of physicians with strategies that assess and advance physician competence, enhance physician performance, and narrow clinical practice gaps; and
• That supplies appropriate and necessary methodologies for learning that provide credits for re-licensure to physicians who have mandatory requirements set by state medical boards.

Target Audience

IAME serves a national audience of practicing physicians and allied health professionals. Potential physician participants include, but are not limited to, specialists such as radiologists, neurologists, surgeons, cardiologists, and obstetricians. IAME also serves a secondary audience that includes allied health professionals who are also members of the healthcare team.

Type of Activities

The types of activities that IAME provides are interactive learning formats: live patient assessments, live events, internet-based enduring materials, and journal-based CME. IAME produces educational programs and services that facilitate learning in basic sciences, diagnostic modalities, technical skills, therapeutics, and patient management. Educational delivery systems are tailored to the continuing professional development needs of the participants in support of the following six general competencies: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and systems-based practice.

Expected Results

IAME’s goal is to provide educational activities that lead to improved patient care. The expected results of IAME’s educational activities are achieved through focused medical programs that contribute to the lifelong learning of its participants. IAME relies on a variety of instruments to assess and quantify the impact of these activities on physician performance, competence, or patient outcomes. Specific expected results include an increase in applied knowledge, the refinement of skill sets, and the ability to apply new techniques or skills known to improve the quality of clinical practice and patient care.

PROGRAM PURPOSE

1. To provide participants with an unbiased educational experience that will improve their understanding of risk management principles so that those principles can be applied in their practice.
2. To provide participants with an in-depth exposure to current trends in legal allegations made against orthopaedic surgeons which illustrate breaches in the standard of care.
3. To provide participants with an opportunity to be exposed to educational tools that will help ensure patient safety within their practice.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

After completing this course, the learner will be able to:

• Plan the steps needed to obtain informed consent that will withstand legal challenge.
• Assess a patient who appears to have received substandard treatment by a prior surgeon or other physician and develop an appropriate plan of action.
• Analyze the importance of maintaining professional boundaries with your patients and design an action plan for if a patient expresses romantic feelings for you or if you find yourself physically attracted to your patient.

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL EDUCATION ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of IAME and Data Trace Publishing Company. IAME is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Date of Release: July 1, 2023
Expiration Date of CME Activity: June 30, 2026

CME DESIGNATION

IAME designates this enduring materials internet activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CME NOTE

To receive CME credit, you are required to complete the CME Questionnaire after you have read the enclosed educational material. In order to qualify for CME credit, a score of 70% or more must be achieved on the examination material. You are responsible for notifying your state of the number of credits you have received.

Participants are requested to complete a course evaluation for use in developing future issues and to meet the unique educational requirements of orthopaedic surgeons.

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL EDUCATION DISCLOSURE POLICY

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, educational activities must demonstrate balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. As an organization accredited by the ACCME, IAME requires those involved in planning any IAME-sponsored journal-based CME activities to disclose any relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies to the program audience. “Relevant financial relationships” are financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 24 months. An “ineligible company” is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing healthcare products on or by patients.

Limitations on Data: Presenter will ensure, to the extent possible, meaningful disclosure of limitations on data (e.g., ongoing research, interim analyses, preliminary data, or unsupported opinion).

Planners/Faculty/Author:

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

This course was developed by James E. Schutte, PhD.

No one at Data Trace Publishing Company or IAME controlled the content of this activity.

Disclosures:

Dr. Schutte reports no relationships with ineligible companies.

IAME and DataTrace Publishing have assessed conflicts of interest with its faculty, authors, editors, and any individuals who were in a position to control the content of this CME activity. Any relevant financial relationships were mitigated with an independent peer review of this activity, and no conflicts or commercial biases were detected. IAME’s planners, content reviewers, and editorial staff disclose no relationships with ineligible entities.