Introducing MyCME
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Overview
The purpose of NORCAL’s CME program is to improve the quality of patient care, promote safe practices, and reduce the frequency and severity of malpractice claims. NORCAL strives to improve the competence and performance of its policyholders by:- Identifying clinical and administrative risk exposures
- Developing suitable educational initiatives designed to change physician risk management behaviors
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.CME Program FAQs
Read our list of frequently asked questions and contact information regarding our CME Program.CME Podcast
Complex Regional Pain SyndromeFocuses on the more common of two pain syndromes based on claims experience, "Complex Regional Pain Syndrome" Type I (CRPS I), a chronic pain condition that can be difficult to diagnose.
Clinical Courses
Failure to Diagnose Breast CancerAnalyzes closed malpractice claims involving missed or delayed diagnosis of breast cancer. This course offers risk management strategies to reduce such errors and delays.
High Alert Conditions
Provides risk management strategies for four frequently seen conditions in malpractice claims: appendicitis, meningitis, pneumonia and pulmonary embolism.
Stroke: A Risk Management Analysis
Addresses professional liability risks associated with the condition of stroke.
Failure to Diagnose Malignant Melanoma
Examines the issues and difficulties in diagnosing melanoma in a timely manner. This course will assist all healthcare providers in generating strategies to help curtail belated diagnoses, while facilitating both patient safety and malpractice risk reduction.
Failure to Diagnose Acute Myocardial Infarction
Examines the most common reasons that physicians miss a diagnosis of MI and offers risk management strategies that can help reduce patient death due to physician negligence.
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Examines medical malpractice cases associated with the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of DVT, and provides patient safety and risk management strategies to reduce liability exposure.
Pain Management
Examines influences, pressures, patient factors and practitioner concerns that combine to make pain management challenging for healthcare providers.
Reducing Medication Errors
Examines closed claims and corresponding risk issues, including medication history/reconciliation, prescription refills, monitoring, follow-up, storage, error-prone abbreviations, patient education, health literacy, informed consent and refusal, and black box warnings. Provides risk management recommendations and sample tools.
Administrative Courses
Litigation StressProvides strategies for responding to unanticipated outcomes and litigation stress.
Medical Records Management & Practice Management
Reinforces the importance of the medical record in reflecting quality patient care, and assists practices in identifying and reducing liability exposures of their day-to-day operations.
Informed Consent
To reduce malpractice claims and improve patient care, addresses gaps in knowledge related to the informed consent process.
Cultural Competency and Health Literacy
Provides strategies for understanding and responding appropriately to the cultural, linguistic and literacy differences healthcare providers encounter among themselves and among their patients.
