Keeping Dental Malpractice Out of Your Life: An Approach Based in Risk Management Part 1
Saturday, May 11, 2024
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Location: 341
CE Credits: 1.5
This presentation will be provided by Dr. Marc Leffler, a board-certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon, dental anesthesiologist, and trial attorney, who is currently MedPro's Dental Risk Solutions Lead and Dental Advisory Board Head. It will offer risk management strategies to reduce the potential for being sued for dental malpractice. The course, divided into 2 parts, will take participants through the dental malpractice litigation process, explain what constitutes malpractice and lack of informed consent, discuss the requirements and pitfalls of recordkeeping, review the most common case types that lead to malpractice claims, examine concepts of pharmacology and medicine as they related to everyday dental practice, provide actual closed case scenarios to demonstrate real world applications of the principles, and conclude with takeaways to reduce risk in dental practice. There will be an opportunity for a volunteer participant to undergo an abbreviated courtroom cross-examination to show the intensity and vulnerabilities of those situations.
MedPro insureds who attend both Part 1 and Part 2 of the seminar "Dental Malpractice: What it is and How to Prevent it; an Approach based in Risk Management", may be eligible to earn a 5% risk management premium credit* for the next policy renewal.
*Approval by MedPro does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board. Premium credit eligibility and amount subject to state insurance filings and policy type. Completion of a risk management course does not imply or guarantee renewal.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the basic required elements for lawsuits in dental malpractice and lack of informed consent
Appreciate the impacts of common underlying medical conditions to dental practice, and recognize the effects of commonly used pharmacologic agents
Learn the most common types of procedures – and related injuries – which lead to malpractice lawsuits
Appreciate recordkeeping requirements and the drawbacks of electronic records
Be able to incorporate risk management tools to practice more safely, reduce the chances of being sued, and increase the likelihood of prevailing in the event of malpractice litigation