GME Legal Case Studies (Audio Conference)

AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND

Sponsored by 3rd Annual Residency Program Management Workshop

presented on August 7, 2008

Get straightforward answers to your toughest GME legal questions.

Navigating the legal issues that weigh heavily on the minds of all GME professionals is no easy task. We've partnered with an experienced director of GME, healthcare attorney, and residency coordinator to provide you with practical solutions to the complex legal challenges you and your residents encounter nearly every day.

Enhance your academic and disruptive resident policies AND protect and support your residents.

Listen to HCPro's GME Legal Case Studies: Strategies for Navigating Risk, Due Process, and Resident Remediation. During this 90-minute audio conference, our expert speakers present case studies related to:

• Residents demonstrating a lack of clinical knowledge
• Residents receiving poor evaluations
• Handling the difficult resident
• Documenting communications between program directors and residents
• What to tell residents' prospective employers and credentialers

These case studies provide you with real-world solutions that work.

You will learn solutions and best practices to the common legal issues you face every day in your GME program. During each case study presentation, our experts:

• Give a real-world example of the challenge their institution or program faced
• Walk you through how the affected institution dealt with the problem
• Provide an assessment of the legal issues, highlighting best practices

BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET

With this purchase, you will also receive a guide to GME legal issues that you can consult and share with your colleagues long after the presentation is over. These materials include:

• A PowerPoint training presentation you can use to educate residents on the documentation requirements that can help keep them out of trouble
• Two free book chapters covering:
  • Grievance
  • Due process
  • Resident disciplinary policy development
• Articles that tackle legal topics such as:
  • Standards for criminal background checks
  • Fixing the problem resident
  • Crafting a resident supervision policy

Get this valuable resource in addition to the expertise and advice that will be presented during this audio conference. These materials are provided with PDF links.

These bonus materials include tools, tips, and resources to help you deal with the legal issues presented in the program.

AGENDA

1. Legal Considerations
   1. ACGME Institutional Requirements
   2. Requirements for evaluations
2. Accountability starts at orientation
3. Educational enhancement: Solutions for documenting academic remediation
   1. Case Study: Resident performs poorly on in-service exam
   2. Case Study: Resident receives poor evaluation on addressing patient issues clearly and concisely
   3. Case Study: Resident receives poor evaluations regarding clinical expression of knowledge base
   4. Documenting academic remediation
4. Disruptive residents and professionalism issues
   1. Conversations with the resident
   2. Improvement plans
   3. Evaluations
   4. Six steps to dealing with the difficult resident
5. What to disclose to prospective employees and credentialing agencies
   1. Potential reporting requirements
6. Q & A

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Bruce D. Armon, Esq., is a partner in Saul Ewing's Business Department, Philadelphia office, and chair of the Life Science’s Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in corporate healthcare law. Armon advises healthcare providers in a variety of statutory, compliance, contractual and regulatory matters, giving him a unique perspective in how to address client needs and objectives.

Beth K. Herman, MPA, is the director of graduate medical education at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. She has been employed in graduate medical education for more than 21 years. She provides institutional oversight for more than 50 ACGME accredited specialty and sub-specialty programs and 520 resident physicians.

Ruth H. Nawotniak, MS, CTAGME, is the cofounder and first president of The National Board for Certification of Training Administrators of Graduate Medical Education (TAGME). She spearheaded the creation of TAGME to establish standards for the profession, acknowledge the expertise needed to successfully manage graduate medical education programs, and recognize those training program administrators who have achieved competence in all fields related to their profession. Nawotniak also serves as the residency program coordinator for the general surgery residency program at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in Buffalo, NY.

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

Designated institutional officials (DIO), GME directors, GME administrators, residency program directors, residency program coordinators.

AUDIO ON-DEMAND

In addition to the regular purchase option for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or an audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

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