Risk Management for the Podiatric Physician: Part 2 Avoiding Medical Errors

This lecture fulfills part of the podiatric Medical Errors and Risk Management continuing education requirement of the states of Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire Texas and Wyoming (as of 2021. See Podiatry CME State Requirements for updates). Risk Management typically includes strategies for avoiding medical errors as well as studies in practicing medicine in an ethical manner. This presentation is Part 2 of 2 and focuses on the central theme of patient safety and how to provide a medical error free environment in your practice. An appraisal of medical errors and mitigating tools for the podiatric physician is grounded in clinical base statistics as well as reports from both medical and legal text; so that the physician may develop mitigating tools to avoid medical errors. The goal of these 2 hour long presentations is to fulfill the Medical Errors CME requirement for podiatric physicians.

For Florida podiatrists, no more than 8 hours (20% of the hours of continuing education required per biennium) of home study programs may be credited toward the licensee’s biennial continuing education requirement for license renewal. A test must be completed and passed demonstrating competency in the topic taught in order to receive credit for the course.

CME (Credits: 1.25)