Overview
NORCAL’s risk management-based continuing medical education (CME) materials are designed to help you enhance patient care and communication while reducing your malpractice risks and fulfilling your continuing medical education requirements.Our CME program includes:
- A dual focus on clinical and administrative issues
- Practical tools for your practice including sample forms, reference materials and other helpful items
- Quality content developed by a team of independent medical faculty, attorneys, claims professionals and in-house risk management experts
- Convenient distance-learning courses—available in hard copy booklet form or online—that can be completed in the comfort of your home or office
Claims Rx Newsletter
Each month, Claims Rx addresses specific risk management strategies that can decrease your exposure to potential liability. It also includes legislative and regulatory updates on changes in healthcare, as well as case-based analyses of closed medical malpractice claims. Beginning January 2007, CME credit will be offered for each issue of Claims Rx.
Performance Improvement Courses
Physician Performance Improvement
Physician Performance Improvement activities are available only to NORCAL policyholders.
Solid risk management principles of complete medical record documentation, clear communication between providers and thorough follow-up protocols are critical to the clinical care you provide. There are three modules available, topics include:
- Module I: Medical Record Documentation
- Module II: Follow Up
- Module III: Drug-Seeking Patients: Managing the Risk
Clinical Courses
Diabetes: Managing Comorbidities
Examines the common causes of litigation related to negligent management of diabetes and its comorbidities and provides tools to help physicians enhance communication, implement a diabetes management protocol and develop strategies to mitigate risk.
Managing Pain with Opioid Analgesics
Provides advice on effectively treating patient pain without increasing misuse/abuse of medications.
Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer
Provides practical risk management solutions to aid in the diagnosis of breast cancer—the most prevalent condition generating liability claims against physicians nationwide.
Failure to Diagnose Lung Cancer
Examines the common themes in lung cancer litigation and provides systems approaches to promote the timely diagnosis of lung cancer and reduce professional liability exposure.
