Mitigate Risks and Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care

Best Medical Practices:
Maximizing Skills, Minimizing Risk Course

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Course Description

The Best Medical Practices: Maximizing Skills, Minimizing Risk course is a one- day course based on issues gleaned from current malpractice risks in primary care. The aim is to provide didactic opportunities for office-based primary care clinicians to update their knowledge about screening for the four most common cancers and help prevent failure or delay in diagnosis.

Join us to learn about the most up to date screening recommendations for breast, lung, colon, and prostate cancers. Additional topics include improving communicating with patients and strategies to mitigate the risk of being named in a malpractice case.

Learning Objectives

• Update your knowledge about screening for the four most common cancers
• Learn about best processes to prevent a failure of or delay in diagnosis
• Improve your skills in communicating with patients
• Find strategies to mitigate the risk of being named in a malpractice case

 Click here to view the Course Agenda (agenda subject to change)

Course Details

When: Saturday, October 13, 2018

Registration and continental breakfast begins at 7:00 am 

Course Fee: $50.00 Non-refundable fee

Tuition includes course materials, breakfast, lunch, and light refreshments.

Tuition does not include parking. Onsite parking is available for $36

 

Continuing Medical Education Information

CRICO/Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CRICO/RMF designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity is designed to be suitable for 7.25 hours of Risk Management study in Massachusetts.

Course Directors

Jane Sillman, MD, BWH 
Marc Garnick, MD, BIDMC

Course Faculty

David Bates, MD, MSc, BWH
Luke Sato, MD, CRICO
Gabriel W. Bell, Esq., Alder Cohen Harvey Wakeman Guekguezian, LLP
Ramona Lim, MD, BWH
Susan Troyan, MD
Charles Hatem, MD, MAH
David Einstein, MD, BIDMC
Gordon Schiff, MD, BWH
Peter McCormack, CRICO
Gerald Smetana, MD, MACP, BIDMC