Course Overview

Please Note: This is an Audio and Reading course. Learn how to protect your patients and stay out of trouble by avoiding medical errors in your practice. In this class, Bob covers standards of practice for proper prescription writing and medical chart writing, standard definitions of medical errors and ways to reduce risk in your clinic, how to use “best practices”, standard protocols, and checklists in your practice, and ways to reduce your risk of malpractice suits.

Course Objectives

• Participants will understand the scope of medical errors within the American health care delivery system
• Participants will understand the types of medical errors which might occur in an acupuncturist’s office
• Participants will understand specific techniques for the prevention of medical errors

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minMedical errors: what they are, the classifications, and where they occur

30 min - 1 hrsWho is at risk, the scope of medical errors, and reasons for a heightened focus

1 hrs - 1.5 hrsTypes of medical errors

1.5 hrs - 2.25 hrsTechniques for reducing medical errors and risk of malpractice suits

2.25 hrs - 6 hrsReading of Lecture Notes