MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERT SECRETARIES SKILLS COURSE

Venue: Online Course

Date: 12 Nov 2024

Synopsis: This unique online course is intended for those who are supporting medico-legal experts, from accepting instructions to submitting reports. The course is intended for all those who are supporting medico-legal experts in the acceptance of instructions for, the production of, and the payments arising from an expert report. Assistants, PAs, and Medical Secretaries are welcome to bring their principals along too – they may learn something!

The course is over four hours (running 1000 until 1500 including breaks), and will convert the novice into a skilled practitioner, and the experienced into experts in their own right.

Details:

OVERVIEW

• What is medico-legal reporting?
• What is the expert required to do?
• Who may instruct them?
• Who cannot?
• Panels and practitioners
• Who is the expert’s duty to?
• What rules apply – in crime, civil law, and family law?
• What about Coroners’ courts?
• What about Scotland, Northern Ireland and elsewhere?
• What should the expert have by way of a CV?
• What should the expert have by way of T&Cs?
• What should the expert be able to do for conflict checking?
• What acknowledgments should be sent?
• What sort of reports are there?
• What about a screening report?
• What about a desktop report?
• Liability and causation
• Condition and prognosis
• Fitness to plead
• What will the instructions say?
• What will a panel do?
• Fixing examinations – in person
• Fixing examination – online
• Who needs to attend?
• What checks need to be made?
• Photographing the claimant?
• What does capacity mean – is it the same as Gillick?
• What format should the report follow?
• Fonts spacing and side numbers
• Italics and footnotes
• Headers and footers
• What needs to go in?
• Common errors and omissions?
• What about references and literature?
• What about medical records?
• How should these be obtained?
• Can I approach the hospital?
• What part of them goes into a report?
• How should the expert refer to people?
• Who must sign it?
• What do the declarations means
• How should my expert deal with requests for changes?
• How should my expert deal with typos or minor errors?
• How should my expert respond to challenges?
• What about questions?
• Who pays for these – and when?
• What about experts joint meetings?
• What is hot tubbing?
• What about going to court?
• Filling or vacating the diary?
• Cancellations and postponements
• No shows and other issues
• What can an expert bill?
• When can an expert bill?
• What about when the expert is not paid?
• What about GDPR?
• How long should records and reports be kept?
• What are the FAQs?
  
  

The course is online but supported by key materials to be downloaded or sent directly to you as a password-protected file.

URL:
https://www.specialistinfo.com/ml-expert-secretaries-skills-course

Contact:
Lisa Cheyne lisa@specialistinfo.com 01423 787 984 SpecialistInfo, 14 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate HG1 1ED