Forensic Documentation

20 "Online" CE Credits

*CE Credits are issued for Doctors of Chiropractic only.

This 20 Hour course covers how to get the doctor to understand documenting demonstratively bodily injuries and functional losses in forensic environment.

The forensic documentation course has been engineered to allow you to thrive in the most confrontational medical legal environment: the courtroom. The modules were created to help you understand how to create demonstrative documentation so that your clinical findings are easily understood and can withstand scrutiny upon cross examination. This course gives you the tools to take your evaluation, reevaluation and treatment notes to be fully understood and teaches you how to craft them in such a manner to withstand the courtroom environment.

Part 1: An Introduction to report writing in medical-legal environment.  This section discusses how to organize your charts and prepare  demonstrative examples based upon your clinical findings.

Part 2: Reviews how to document spinal biomechanical findings in both words and images.

Part 3: Illustrates how to document causality and bodily injury in cervical flexion and extension injuries.

Part 4: How to forensically document bodily injuries, inclusive of utilizing imaging studies that are labeled as part of your documentation.

Part 5:Understating that your curriculum vitae is part of your documentation; how to prepare it and present it in the medical-legal environment.  How to use peer-reviewed medical literature in your documentation inclusive of appropriate citations.

Part 6: Documenting your credentials so they are admissible in a medical-legal environment.

Part 7: Organizing and presenting your documentation in a medical-legal environment. (Direct Examination) Part 1

Part 8: Organizing and presenting your documentation in a medical-legal environment. (Direct Examination) Part 2

Part 9: Organizing and defending your documentation in a medical-legal environment. (Cross Examination) Part 1

Part 10: Organizing and defending your documentation in a medical-legal environment. (Cross Examination) Part 2

   FEE: $750.00

Instructors:
The doctor's CV can be found by clicking on "Faculty" on the top toolbar

  Mark Studin DC, FASBE(C), DAAPM, DAAMLP, Chiropractor

Dan Rosner Esq.

Accepted language to be added to your CV

Forensic Documentation

CV Citations

Module 1:

Forensic Documentation-Report Writing, Report writing in a medical-legal case inclusive of causality, bodily injury, persistent functional loss and restrictive sequela from trauma. Demonstratively documenting bodily injury utilizing models, graphs and patient image of x-ray and advanced imaging. Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 2:

Forensic Documentation- Demonstrative Documentation, Demonstratively reporting spinal biomechanical failure and spinal compensation. How in a medical-legal environment to ethically report pre-existing injuries vs causally related current injuries and what is permissible in a legal proceeding. Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 3:

Forensic Documentation- Reporting Direct Opinions , Cauality, bodily injury and persistent functional losses documented and reported in a medical-legal environment as your direct opinion. Avoiding hearsay issues to ensure ethical relationships. Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 4:

Forensic Documentation- Initial, Final and Collaborative Reporting ,Preparing demonstrative documentation in a medical-legal case ensuring that you are familiar with all other treating doctor’s reports. Correlating your initial and evaluation and management (E&M) report and your follow-up E&M reports with the narrative upon maximum medical improvement documenting continuum of care.  Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 5:

Forensic Documentation- Qualifications and Preparation of Documentation, How to prepare your documentation for courtroom testimony and ensuring your qualifications are documented properly on an admissible, professional curriculum vitae. How to include indexed peer-reviewed literature in medical-legal documentation,  Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 6:

Forensic Documentation- Reporting Patient History and Credentials ,Preparing patient history in a medical-legal case based upon your initial intake forms and understanding the work, social, academic, household and social activities of your patient. Understanding and explaining your doctoral and post-doctoral credentials in the courtroom.  Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 7:

Forensic Documentation- Reporting Chiropractic Care and Injured Anatomy , Preparing demonstrative documentation in a medical-legal case to report the bodily injuries of your patients , inclusive of loss of function and permanent tissue pathology.  Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 8:

Forensic Documentation- Reporting Temporary vs. Permanent Issues, Preparing documentation in a medical-legal case ensuring that you can communicate permanent vs. temporary functional losses and permanent vs. temporary tissue pathology. How to maintain and explain ethical relationships in medical-legal cases, Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 9:

Forensic Documentation- Reporting Bodily Injury, How to report bodily injury and functional losses as supported by your credentials in a medical-legal case. Clinically correlating causality and permanent tissue pathology as sequela to trauma, Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Module 10:

Forensic Documentation- Record Review and Documentation Reporting, How to report records of collaborative treating doctors and communicating your scope of practice in the management of your case. How to ethically report your role as a doctor in medical-legal cases, Cleveland University, Kansas City, PACE Recognized by the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, Academy of Chiropractic, Post-Doctoral Division, Long Island NY, 2019

Objective: To get the doctor to understand how to document demonstratively bodily injuries and functional losses in a forensic environment.