Liability & Dispute Resolution in Health Care

Catalog description

In this course students will take an in-depth look at both the substantive and procedural law of medical negligence litigation and ways to avoid litigation through communication and resolution processes and the use of other alternative means of reconciliation following harm. Students will also review and discuss the motivations behind medical malpractice litigation and will include detailed discussions about the comprehensive, principled, and systematic approach to the prevention and response to patient harm including communication and resolution programs such as the Michigan Model, CANDOR, and the BETA HEART program. Students will discover, during the course, the impact of medical harm and litigation on patients, families, caregivers and society. Case-based videos involving actual patient harm events and demonstrating the power of empathic communication are used throughout the course.