ASiT Surgery and the Law Course
This course will be held at the Holiday Inn, Hull Marina, with the afternoon session at Hull Guildhall.
ASiT Surgery and the Law Course
Friday 12 March 2010
Cost: £30 for ASiT members (plus conference registration)
Includes lunch, coffees and evening drinks reception in Ferens Art Gallery
This course can be booked through the on-line conference registration system
This one-day course will guide you through the medico-legal pitfalls of surgery, and includes an afternoon in the impressive Edwardian law courts (pictured above) in the City's Guildhall, and a visit to the cells.
Convenor: Mr Paul Marks
Consultant Neurosurgeon, The General Infirmary at Leeds
Assistant Deputy Coroner, West Yorkshire
By being both a neurosurgeon and Deputy Coroner, Mr Marks is ideally qualified and experienced to lead this course. He has brought together surgical co-faculty who have broad experience in the complex area of medico-legal issues.
There has always been an association between the medical and legal professions. Changes in regulation of the medical profession, the increased trend to litigation, alterations to the Coroners’ service and the closure of university departments of medical jurisprudence have all contributed to a feeling of unease in dealing with medico-legal matters.
In order to meet the growing demand for surgically-focussed training in how to respond to many medico-legal issues, the Course Convenor, Mr Paul Marks has designed a course to cover the following topics:
* Consent and refusal of treatment
* Clinical negligence
* End of life issues
* Report writing and giving evidence
* The Coroner system
Provisional Course Timetable:
0800-0830 - Coffee and registration
0830-0845 - Welcome and faculty introduction
0845-0930 - Consent and refusal of treatment
0930-1015 - Clinical negligence
1015-1100 - End of life issues
1100-1115 - Coffee
1115-1200 - Report writing and giving evidence
1200-1245 - The coroner system
1245-1345 - Lunch
1345-1700 - Attending court-Mock Case (Edwardian law courts in the City's Guildhall, and a visit to the cells)
1345-1415 - Group exercise preparation for case
1415-1430 - Coffee
1430-1630 - The case
1630-1700- Feedback from candidates and faculty in relation to the case
1700-1715 - Close and Feedback on course
1730-1900 - Free drinks reception and canapés at Ferens Art Gallery, with welcome from the Lord Mayor and a string quartet
For further information please contact: info@asit.org
