Safeguarding of Health Care Professionals through Medico-Legal Systems and Applicable Case Laws

Management Development Programme
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Safeguarding of Health Care Professionals through Medico-Legal Systems and Applicable Case Laws

December 01 - 03, 2023
Programme Coordinator: Dr. Ashok Peepliwal

Background

Medical Professionals specially doctors are second to God and save life of people with their medical expertise. The legitimacy runs parallelly with the medical profession and how the medico-legal issues could be resolved within the time frame is a major concern in the profession. Medico-legal cases are piling up in Consumer Courts for compensation due to medical negligence, malpractices, and case related problems, corporate negligence is also an issue that needs to be addressed, tackled at the management level to safeguard medical professional, and avoiding litigation matters. Our experts from the different field of Law (Consumer Affairs, IPC-1860 (Bartiya Nyay Sanhita, BNS), CrPC-1973 (Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, BNSS), PCPNDT-1994, MTP-1971, Forensic etc.) & Hospital Administration make the Medical Practitioners, Healthcare Entrepreneurs, Pharmaceutical Professionals & Nursing Professionals aware of various rules and regulations, Law Compliances, Good Documentation Practices, and various acts, are delivering the knowledge of law to safeguard the healthcare professionals during their practices. This training will be useful for healthcare professionals involved with the patient care and providing their services in hospitals. Healthcare professionals are naive in legislations related to healthcare profession in the areas of Indian Laws, Clinical Risk Management, Hospital Management, and Patient Safety as a part of their profession. Patient-doctor relationship based on the outcomes of the treatments given to patient and subsequent recovery of patient but if the safety of the patient is compromised inadvertently with an unwanted and irreversible injury, then litigation matter evolves is required to be controlled, handles, and resolved as per laws.
This programme is designed to provide an adequate understanding of medico-legal documentation, informed consent process (what, when, how, why and for whom), medico-legal examination in cases of sexual assault, Medico-negligence, Doctor protections under law, Finger printing which may keep aloof to a medical practitioner from any lawsuit matters in future. The learning will be acquainted to deal with day-to-day medico-legal cases at individual level and hospital level as vicarious liability to sort out the medicolegal issues.
This acquired knowledge or skills will be further applied for the improvement of patient safety and care in a better way for the protection of doctors from any legal trials eloquently or innocently.

Program Contents

The training will include following medico-legal aspects of healthcare:

  • Introduction to the Legal System in Clinical Risk Management
  • Clinical Establishment Act 2010 and Healthcare Obligations
  • Medico-Legal Documentation in Healthcare Practice (PHC/CHC)
  • Patient Consent Process (Surgery, Mass Patient Screening, Clinical Trials, and other healthcare interventions)
  • Patient Safety and Quality issues under Law
  • Confidentiality and privacy of patient (Rights and Duties)
  • Medico Negligence case studies with judicial decisions (What, When, How and Why)
  • Violence against Doctors – Precaution and Prevention
  • Medico-Legal Case report (Obligation of hospital, Doctor and Nurse etc.)
  • Sexual Assault Legal Matters, Sidestepping, Safeguard, and Resolution
  • Role of Finger Printing in Medico-Legal Cases

Objectives

The main objective of the programme is to focus on vital knowledge about the core medico-legal aspects of healthcare. It will enable health care professionals to imbibe the knowledge of law, proactive approach of litigation matters, law proceedings, protection, and precaution from adversity of medical profession under Indian Judiciary System. This training will provide a mix of teaching from experts and practitioners in the areas of law, governance, and medicine, by way of continuous interaction, case-study presentations, case proceedings, precautionary measures, compliance of healthcare rules & regulations under law decision analysis.

Pedagogy

The teaching approach is to utilize substantive, case-study, and an interactive style to learning with as practical as possible input from lecturers who are specifically required to draw from their professional expertise in the fields of litigation, insurance, consenting, claims handling and other areas of medical law and ethics. Learning is acquired through open discussion of professional topics, case study analysis and live interaction.

Target Participants

This programme provides training for healthcare providers and those involved in healthcare and allied aspects of healthcare such as: Medical Professionals like Doctors, Nurses, Clinical risk /Patient Safety Advisors/Managers Hospital /Directors, Administrators and others working in the fields of patient quality, health care lawyers, healthcare legal claims managers.

Resource Person

The programme will be offered by a team of key resource persons with health systems expertise. All key resource persons have high quality academic track record, teaching, research and extensive programme implementation experience in health systems. Leaders from other organizations will be invited for interactions with the participants.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Peepliwal

Programme Coordinator:
Dr. Ashok Kumar Peepliwal, (PhD, MPharm, LLB, MBA)
Associate Professor, IIHMR University, Jaipur

Programme Fee

The programme fee for Indian participants INR 24,750 plus GST (18%) and for international participants USD 462 plus GST (18%). The programme fee includes tuition, background reading material, programme kit, lodging, and boarding.

Discount

Early Bird Discount: Nominations received with payments on or before 4-weeks (October 31, 2023) will be entitled to an early bird discount of 10%.
Group Discount: Any organization sponsoring four or more participants to the programme will be entitled for a discount of 20% on the total fee payable provided that at least four participants attend the programme.
Maximum Discount: Organization can avail themselves of both the discounts subject to maximum discount of 20%.

Venue and Duration

The training has been scheduled between December 01 - 03, 2023. The Venue of the programme would be IIHMR University, Jaipur, India. IIHMR University is located near Jaipur International airport, Sanganer, Jaipur. The University campus provides a learning environment to the participants. The participants are welcome to use the library and recreational facilities at the campus.

Certification

A certificate of participation on completion of the program will be issued by The IIHMR University, Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur.

Contact Us

All the communication regarding the programme should be made with the MDP Office at the following address.

MDP Office

IIHMR University
1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport
Jaipur – 302029, Rajasthan

Phone Number: 9358790012 , 0141-3924700 (Ext. 758)
Email: training@iihmr.edu.in

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