HL 440 - Case Studies in Health Care Malpractice Consulting: Process & Applications

Course overview

This final course is pivotal for bringing everything together in the building of a solid knowledge and theory base in health care & malpractice consulting practice. Students study actual cases and consulting and expert witness reports and learn additional skills related to work product for attorney clients. Effective report writing methodologies are examined. This course culminates in the actual full analysis of cases from the health care/malpractice consulting viewpoint and work product. Students conduct a real case analysis with full applicability of learned materials from the entire continuing education program of study. This course also provides the knowledge necessary to undertake the role of the the new consultant in the field of health care legal/malpractice consulting. A comprehensive examination at the end of this course allows for the student to do a full case analysis and develop a consulting report and work product.