Medical Mutual Insurance Company of Maine: Risk Management

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Risk Management » CME

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 Health Care Fraud and Abuse - The need for the program was determined from comments from previous course participants and from malpractice insurers' statistics.
MedRisk
Focus on Patient Privacy - The HIPAA Privacy Rule - The need was determined by HIPAA's Privacy Rule requirements.
MedRisk
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.
Physician Leadership - Introductory Seminar
Doctors In Touch
Preventing Malpractice Claims - This home-study course is designed to help physicians and staff identify and correct situations that increase the likelihood of malpractice claims.
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.
RiskAware® for Medical Office Professionals - RiskAware® for Medical Office Professionals is intended for allied health professionals and medical office professionals. The goal of the course is to enhance participants' abilities to identify and eliminate or control malpractice risks in the medical office setting.
MedRisk
RiskAware® for Nurses - RiskAware® for Nurses has been developed as an introductory course for nurses who are interested in learning about professional liability issues related to nursing and what to do about them.
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RiskAware® for Physicians -RiskAware® for Physicians 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.
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Risk Management Consult: Failure to Diagnose - 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.
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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.
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Risk Management Essentials for Physicians with HIPAA and Federal Compliance -Risk Management Essentials for Physicians with HIPAA and Federal Compliance 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.
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Risk Management Essentials for Physicians, Series 3 - Risk Management Essentials for Physicians, Series 3 consists of study, with accompanying CME test, appropriate for any physician who has concerns about new developments in risk management and liability.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Risk Management Focus: The Complete Series -Risk Management Focus: The Complete Series is designed for physicians of all specialties who want to sharpen their risk management skills.
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Risk Management Rounds: Anesthesiology -This course is designed for anesthesiologists, pain medicine specialists and other practitioners of anesthesiology, including nurse anesthetists, who want to sharpen their risk management skills. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
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Risk Management Rounds: Emergency Medicine- Risk Management Rounds: Emergency Medicine is a self-study course, with accompanying CME test.
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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.
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Risk Management Rounds: OB/GYN - Risk Management Rounds: OB/GYN 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.
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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.
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Risk Management Rounds: Pediatrics -Risk Management Rounds: Pediatrics is designed for pediatricians and other physicians who treat children. A basic knowledge of risk management and malpractice is assumed.
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Risk Management Rounds: Physicians -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.
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Risk Management Rounds: Psychiatry -Risk Management Rounds: Psychiatry 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.
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Risk Management Rounds: Radiology - 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.
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Risk Management Rounds: Surgery -Risk Management Rounds: Surgery consists of study, with accompanying CME test, and is appropriate for all surgeons who are interested in practical ways to reduce the potential for malpractice liability.
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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.
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Spotlight on Patient Safety: Preventing Medical Errors - Spotlight on Patient Safety: Preventing Medical Errors 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.
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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 competion, participants should be able to identify the elements of crew resource management, apply principles of CRM to the health care environment, etc.
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Streetwise, Series 6 - 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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