Eligibility : For doctors, interns, PGs & final-year MBBS only
Course Duration : 2 Months
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 110 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
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- Module 1 : Standard of Care25
- 1.1Chapter 1 – Bolams Case
- 1.2Chapter 2 – Diverse Medical Opinion & ‘The Respectable Minority Rule’
- 1.3Chapter 3 – Prevailing Practice (at the relevant point in time)
- 1.4Chapter 4 – Locality & School Rule
- 1.5Chapter 5 – Care expected from a specialist / bigger hospitals
- 1.6Chapter 6 – Care of incompetent patients
- 1.7Chapter 7 – Role of medical science / literature
- 1.8Chapter 8 – CME’s and Regular Updates
- 1.9Chapter 9 – Global Changes in Medical Science / Practice
- 1.10Chapter 10 – Dilemma on the course to be followed
- 1.11Chapter 11 – Diverse Medical Opinion – Preferring / choosing from multiple options / next-best-option
- 1.12Chapter 12 – Opting for the next-best-option
- 1.13Chapter 13 – Dealing with requests / insistences / demands of the patient
- 1.14Chapter 14 – Differing with another doctors opinion
- 1.15Chapter 15 – Deviating
- 1.16Chapter 16 – Contradictions in medical literature
- 1.17Chapter 17 – Conflict between medical practice and medical science
- 1.18Chapter 18 – Absence of standard protocols / practices / guidelines
- 1.19Chapter 19 – Qualification / expertise / skill of a doctor
- 1.20Chapter 20 – Patient / attendants request to accept / continue (non-emergencies)
- 1.21Chapter 21 – Emergency patient outside expertise
- 1.22Chapter 22 – Representing yourself before public / patients
- 1.23Chapter 23 – Prescribing / practicing other pathies
- 1.24Chapter 24 – Role swapping – Doctors, nurses, paramedics
- 1.25Chapter 25 – Age and experience of doctor
- Module 2 : Duty of Care22
- 2.1Chapter 1 – Doctor-patient relationship
- 2.2Chapter 2 – When does the duty of care arise?
- 2.3Chapter 3 – Screening of patient
- 2.4Chapter 4 – Indirect duty of care
- 2.5Chapter 5 – Absence of duty of care
- 2.6Chapter 6 – Right to choose patient / refusal to treat at the outset
- 2.7Chapter 7 – Refusal to treat only on religious grounds
- 2.8Chapter 8 – Persons with whom a doctor / hospital had / has uncomfortable relationship
- 2.9Chapter 9 – Cessation of duty of care
- 2.10Chapter 10 – Withdrawing from the patient
- 2.11Chapter 11 – The compulsion to treat
- 2.12Chapter 12 – Standard of care expected during emergencies
- 2.13Chapter 13 – Procedural formalities – Courts lenient attitude
- 2.14Chapter 14 – Acting with a sense of urgency
- 2.15Chapter 15 – Patient outside expertise
- 2.16Chapter 16 – Fees
- 2.17Chapter 17 – Telephonic instructions/ consultations
- 2.18Chapter 18 – History
- 2.19Chapter 19 – Investigations
- 2.20Chapter 20 – Consent
- 2.21Chapter 21 – Surgery
- 2.22Chapter 22 – Hospitals
- Module 3 : Confidentiality11
- 3.1Chapter 1 – Maintaining confidentiality
- 3.2Chapter 2 – Need for confidentiality in medical practice
- 3.3Chapter 3 – Commonest mistakes
- 3.4Chapter 4 – Medicolegal reports
- 3.5Chapter 5 – Statutory privilege from disclosure in courts
- 3.6Chapter 6 – Information about dead patients
- 3.7Chapter 7 – Exceptions to confidentiality
- 3.8Chapter 8 – Excessive disclosures
- 3.9Chapter 9 – The legal and ethical dilemma
- 3.10Chapter 10 – Disclosing HIV status to patient’s sexual partner
- 3.11Chapter 11 – Provisional diagnosis and disclosures
- Module 4 : Consent37
- 4.1Chapter 1 – Consent – Patients right, Doctors duty
- 4.2Chapter 2 – Is consent merely a formality?
- 4.3Chapter 3 – Effect of consent on a doctor’s actions / decisions
- 4.4Chapter 4 – Responsibility to take consent
- 4.5Chapter 5 – Types of consent
- 4.6Chapter 6 – Prerequisites of a valid consent – Counselling and Disclosures
- 4.7Chapter 7 – Exceptions to obtaining consent
- 4.8Chapter 8 – Emergencies
- 4.9Chapter 9 – Separate, specific and written consent
- 4.10Chapter 10 – No need for consent
- 4.11Chapter 11 – Exonerating clauses / declarations
- 4.12Chapter 12 – Can medical records substitute consent?
- 4.13Chapter 13 – Does consent for a complicated method operate as consent for a comparatively simpler one?
- 4.14Chapter 14 – Dealing with non-availability of relatives / attendants for giving consent
- 4.15Chapter 15 – Adult, conscious and oriented patient
- 4.16Chapter 16 – Consent of parents / spouse / children
- 4.17Chapter 17 – Incompetent Patients
- 4.18Chapter 18 – Substituted / Proxy Consent – Government Hospitals
- 4.19Chapter 19 – What should be recorded?
- 4.20Chapter 20 – Consultant / surgeon for a specific period or only for a procedure / surgery
- 4.21Chapter 21 – Taking consent – Step-by-step
- 4.22Chapter 22 – Precautions in filling the consent form
- 4.23Chapter 23 – One person / one pen / one sitting – An unusual advice for filling the consent form
- 4.24Chapter 24 – Illiterate patients / Patients not conversant with English / literate person unable to sign
- 4.25Chapter 25 – High-risk consent
- 4.26Chapter 26 – Witness / Additional Consent
- 4.27Chapter 27 – General Precautions for Procedures / Surgeries
- 4.28Chapter 28 – ‘Extension’ / Deviation / Alternative
- 4.29Chapter 29 – Corrective procedure / surgery
- 4.30Chapter 30 – Medical termination of pregnancy
- 4.31Chapter 31 – Sterilization Procedures
- 4.32Chapter 32 – Interventions where sterility is anticipated – Unusual law
- 4.33Chapter 33 – Delay in giving consent
- 4.34Chapter 34 – Refusal to consent
- 4.35Chapter 35 – Part / Modified Consent
- 4.36Chapter 36 – Advance Directives / Living Wills
- 4.37Chapter 37 – Supreme Court rules for simple consent
- Module 5 : Criminal Liability & Arrest of Doctors14
- 5.1Chapter 1 – Introduction
- 5.2Chapter 2 – Criminal liability of doctors in India
- 5.3Chapter 3 – Criminal medical negligence under IPC
- 5.4Chapter 4 – Other offences related to medicine under IPC
- 5.5Chapter 5 – Adulteration of drugs – An offence treated differently
- 5.6Chapter 6 – Criminal vis-a-vis Civil liability – Role of “gross”
- 5.7Chapter 7 – Relevance of fees
- 5.8Chapter 8 – Criminal Procedure
- 5.9Chapter 9 – Facts of Jacob Mathew’s case
- 5.10Chapter 10 – Facts of Jacob Mathew’s case
- 5.11Chapter 11 – Private complaint to Criminal Courts
- 5.12Chapter 12 – Police complaint
- 5.13Chapter 13 – Arrest of doctors
- 5.14Chapter 14 – Newer offences of future
- Module 6 : What is Medical Negligence?1
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