Continuing Medical Education (CME)
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Committed to promoting risk management educational programs to our multi-specialty-insured physicians, Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine presents the following offerings and courses for your selection and participation.
Each course confers Continuing Medical Education credits (CME). If you select an Internet course and successfully complete the course, a CME certificate will either be issued immediately online or mailed to you from the company sponsoring the course.
- "ALSO" –
Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics for Family Practice/OB Physicians. The course design is directed at those physicians and providers involved in the care of obstetrical patients who practice in settings lacking high-risk perinatal services.
American Academy of Family Physicians - Focus on Federal Compliance: Preventing Healthcare Fraud and Abuse, Third Edition –
The need for the program was determined from comments from previous course participants and from malpractice insurers' statistics.
MedRiskŪ - Focus on Patient Privacy: The HIPAA Privacy Rule, Fifth Edition –
This course was developed to enable physicians to meet the privacy standards of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
MedRiskŪ - Intrapartum Fetal Assessment: Risk Management Issues –
For certified nurse midwives (and other delivery-room nurses).
American College of Nurse-Midwives - Medical Ethics –
This home-study course is designed to help physicians and staff be aware of-and practice-the highest standards of professional ethics.
TIV, Inc. - Preventing Medical Errors –
This home-study course is designed to help participating physicians and staff practice more effective techniques, leading to more effective care for patients and a reduction in the likelihood of medical errors.
TIV, Inc. - Risk Management Consult: Achieving Cultural Competence –
This home-study course is designed to help physicians develop cultural competence, and therefore better serve patients from different cultural backgrounds.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Avoiding Medical System Failures, Second Edition –
This home-study course is designed to examine how systems failures arise and what physicians can do to prevent simple errors and oversights from deteriorating into major injuries.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Avoiding Never Events –
This home-study course outlines how physicians and other healthcare providers can work together to prevent never events, improve patient safety and reduce the risk of such errors.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Avoiding Surgical Systems Failures –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who want to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors by confronting and addressing issues affecting systems failures.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Documentation –
This home-study course is designed help physicians learn to document in ways that both improve patient care and reduce their own potential liability.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Electronic Medicine –
This home-study course was designed for physicians who want to learn about patient safety issues associated with telemedicine, electronic medical records, email, Internet prescribing, and related issues.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Failure to Diagnose Cancer, Second Edition –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who want to avoid diagnostic failures relating to cancer.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Failure to Diagnose, Second Edition –
This course is based on actual malpractice cases. All cases are real, although the names of the primary parties have been changed. Risk management principles will be derived from the cases. After each case presentation, the liabilities inherent in that case will be analyzed, and relevant risk management principles will be presented.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Handoffs and Hospitalists –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who want to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors caused by flawed communication with other physicians.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Informed Consent, Second Edition –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who want to reduce their liability and improve patient safety by ensuring that patients understand and can take part in their treatment plan.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Low Health Literacy –
This course is designed for physicians who want to sharpen their ability to communicate effectively with patients who don't understand medical issues.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Managing Disruptive Physician Behavior –
This self-study course is designed for physicians who want to deal more effectively with colleagues who display disruptive behavior.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Pain Management –
This self-study course investigates circumstances that most commonly give rise to malpractice claims and disciplinary actions involving pain management, and the policies and procedures that doctors can follow to reduce their own risks of being sued or disciplined when faced with similar circumstances.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Pediatrics –
This self-study course is designed for pediatricians and others who treat children.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Consult: Repairing Difficult Patient Relationships –
This home-study course is designed for physicians of all specialties who want to improve patient outcomes by more effectively handling difficult patient situations.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Essentials for Physicians with HIPAA and Federal Compliance, Second Edition –
Risk Management Essentials for Physicians with HIPAA and Federal Compliance, Second Edition is designed for physicians of all specialties who want to comply with health care regulations. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Essentials for Physicians, Second Edition –
Risk Management Essentials for Physicians, Second Edition consists of study, with accompanying CME test, appropriate for any physician who has concerns about new developments in risk management and liability.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Essentials: Documentation –
Poor documentation can result in denied claims for payment as well as discipline from state medical boards. This course is designed to help physicians avoid these issues.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Common Missed Diagnoses and Errors –
This self-study course covers six commonly missed diagnoses and how to prevent them.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Communication among Colleagues –
Certain elements of risk management are classic: relationships, communication, and the environment of care. Risk Management Focus: Communication among Colleagues will examine the relationships between physicians and other medical team members as those relationships affect quality care and risk management.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Documentation –
Most physicians can remember reading medical records and seeing entries that are questionable or don't make sense. On occasion these entries have been made in error. Sometimes these entries are vague or ambiguous, and sometimes they have even been made in a deliberate attempt to falsify the record. Risk Management Focus: Documentation will examine these things.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Office Risks –
This course examines risk factors that lurk in the medical office, where nearly 30 percent of medical liability claims originate. Such risks may be procedural (for example, the protocols your assistants follow in pursuing bad debts). Some are systems-based, like the steps you follow in reviewing lab reports before they are filed. Such routine activities as patient scheduling, tracking lab reports and x-rays, and maintaining records can produce risks that may increase the chances of suit. Risk Management Focus: Office Risks will show you what to look out for, and what to do when you find such risks in your office.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Patient Communication –
Some studies suggest that as many as 63 percent of suits are based on communication issues: failure to keep the family informed; the patient's desire for revenge; or the perception that the physician or other members of the health care team were avoiding the family. Other estimates go as high as 80 percent. Not only is the relationship between patient and physician critical in malpractice avoidance, the relationship among physicians, nurses, therapists and other health care professionals can also play a role.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Professional Boundaries –
Sexual relations between physicians and patients have been proscribed since the time of Hippocrates. Today, every state medical licensing board expressly bars such conduct, and some states have made it a crime. Despite the prohibition, instances of sexual misconduct persist. Given the serious nature and possible consequences of the behavior, it is necessary to review the reasons for the prohibition and provide guidance to physicians on how to handle potentially risky patient situations.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: Professional Ethics –
Risk Management Focus: Professional Ethics is intended for those wishing more information about risk management, and topics appropriate for medical ethics and professional responsibility. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Focus: The Complete Series, Series 2 –
Risk Management Focus: The Complete Series, Series 2 is designed for physicians of all specialties who want to sharpen their risk management skills.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Ambulatory Care Series 2 –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who treat patients in an ambulatory setting. This course will also address five of the most common areas of risk and provide information on how to minimize them.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Anesthesiology, Second Edition –
This course is designed for anesthesiologists and others who administer anesthesia. Course will provide tips on reducing liability and improving patient safety.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry –
This home-study course is designed for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals who treat children and adolescents and want to limit their malpractice liability. This is a course about learning to recognize and prevent the common communication, documentation, and reporting errors that give rise to avoidable malpractice suits.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Emergency Medicine –
Risk Management Rounds: Emergency Medicine is a self-study course, with accompanying CME test.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Neurology –
This course is designed for neurologists who want to sharpen their risk management skills. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: OB/GYN, Second Edition –
Risk Management Rounds: OB/GYN, Second Edition is a self-study course, with accompanying evaluation (CME). On course completion, participants should be able to discuss how communication with patients can help improve patient care and prevent lawsuits, apply principles of informed consent, implied consent and informed refusal in a variety of clinical situations, document patient care in a manner that reduces the risk of medical errors, etc.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Ophthalmology –
This course is designed to illustrate how avoidable claims arise and the general principles that the courts use in determining whether or not an ophthalmologist can be held liable for them.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Oral Surgery Series 1 –
This home-study course is designed for oral surgeons who want to limit their liability and avoid medical and surgical errors. As such, they must understand not only their own responsibilities but those of both their dental and medical colleagues, such that they are prepared to intervene when others fall short in meeting their own obligations.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Orthopedics –
This course is designed for orthopedists and orthopedic surgeons who want to improve risk management and medical error prevention.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Pathology –
This course is designed for pathologists who want to sharpen their risk management skills. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Pediatrics, Second Edition –
Risk Management Rounds: Pediatrics, Second Edition is designed for pediatricians and other physicians who treat children. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Physician, Second Edition –
Risk Management Rounds: Physicians is designed for physicians of all specialties who want to sharpen their risk management skills. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Psychiatry, Series 2 –
Risk Management Rounds: Psychiatry, Series 2 consists of study, with accompanying CME test, and is appropriate for physicians of all specialties who are interested in practical ways to reduce the potential for malpractice liability.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Radiology, Second Edition –
Risk Management Rounds: Radiology is intended for diagnostic radiologists or physicians who interpret x-rays. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
MedRiskŪ - Risk Management Rounds: Surgery, Second Edition –
Risk Management Rounds: Surgery, Second Edition focuses on risk management issues specific to the practice of surgery.
MedRiskŪ - Spotlight on Patient Safety: Disclosure of Medical Errors –
This is a course about protecting your patients by developing the communication, documentation, analytical and planning skills that make the delivery of medical care safer.
MedRiskŪ - Spotlight on Patient Safety: Preventing Medical Errors, Second Edition –
Spotlight on Patient Safety: Preventing Medical Errors, Second Edition is a self-study course, with CME test. With course completion, participants should be able to identify instances of miscommunication that contribute to medical errors, understand how formalized protocols can improve patient safety, know how to respond when an error occurs, etc.
MedRiskŪ - Spotlight on Patient Safety: Reducing Medical Errors through CRM –
Spotlight on Patient Safety: Reducing Medical Errors through CRM is a self-study course, with CME test. Upon course completion, participants should be able to identify the elements of crew resource management, apply principles of CRM to the health care environment, etc.
MedRiskŪ - Streetwise, Second Edition –
This home-study course is designed for physicians who want a concise course that outlines risk management basics. Upon course completion, participants should be able to recognize key elements and leading causes of malpractice lawsuits in traditional and managed care environment, etc.
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