Eight modules · nine quizzes · about four and a half hours · Rs. 999, normally Rs. 2,999
Medicolegal Essentials
Every doctor must know this
You were trained to treat. Nobody trained you for the letter that arrives on a Tuesday. This is the medicolegal ground a practising doctor in India is assumed to stand on and is never taught: the four forums you can be called before, what the standard of care is actually measured against, the consumer route, where the criminal law sits, what your records must survive, whether your consent form would hold, the first seventy two hours after something goes wrong, and what your indemnity policy does not cover.
Prepared and taught by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, Medicolegal Expert and Founder, DoctorLawyer™, in consultation with an empanelled advocate of the High Court of Bombay.
8written modules
9scored quizzes
56applied questions
8documents you keep
4.5hours in total
12months of access
Inaugural launch offer
Rs. 2,999Rs. 999
You save Rs. 2,000. The launch price is limited to the first 200 enrolments. After that the course is Rs. 2,999, which is its standing price.
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, all nine quizzes and the certificate. A later price rise never applies to a course you have already paid for, and nothing further is ever charged for it.
Read module one before you buy
Module one and its quiz open without payment, so you can see the writing, the depth and the way the questions work before you decide. No card, nothing charged, and nothing charged later unless you choose to buy.
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What you will be able to do when you have finished
Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.
- Take any letter, notice or summons that arrives at your clinic, work out which of the four forums it has come from, and know what that forum can and cannot do to you.
- Look at a decision you made and say, in a sentence, what a court would actually measure it against, and write the four extra lines in the file that put that measurement within reach.
- Work out, from the fee a patient actually paid, which consumer commission a complaint would go to, on what clock, and which three documents in your practice are most exposed on that route.
- Look at a police visit or a private complaint and work out, from the face of it, which provision is being invoked, whether the offence is bailable, and what has to happen before anyone can proceed against you or arrest you.
- Say, for any document in your clinic, how long you must hold it, who is entitled to a copy and in what time, and what you must never do to it once anything has gone wrong.
- Look at your own consent form and tell whether it would actually hold: on scope, on who signed it, and on whether the patient understood it.
- Work through the first seventy two hours after an adverse event in a fixed sequence: what you record and how, what you must not touch, who has to be told and when, and where a police intimation duty actually exists as opposed to where people say it does.
- Read your own policy schedule against a fixed set of structural questions, and put those questions in writing to your insurer or broker.
How much of your time this takes
About four and a half hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on any device you open it on.
| Eight written lessons, 13,600 words | about 75 minutes |
| Eight documents you keep and use, 9,900 words | about 55 minutes |
| Nine quizzes, 56 questions, with the authority explained on every answer | about 75 minutes |
| The questions to think through, and the authorities to check if you want to | about 55 minutes |
| Everything, 33,500 words | about 4 hours 40 minutes |
Thirty three thousand words is the length of a short book. It is written to be read in twelve minute pieces on a phone between patients, not in an evening.
How the course runs, start to certificate
1Eight written modules. About twelve minutes each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Every legal proposition carries the case, section or regulation it rests on, so you can check it. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: a records retention reference, a consent checklist, refusal of treatment wording, a first seventy two hours action sheet, a policy interrogation sheet, and more.
2A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five applied questions, not definitions: a situation, and what you would do. Four out of five to pass. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.
3A final quiz across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Sixteen questions, two drawn from each module, twelve out of sixteen to pass. Your sixteen are not the same as anybody else’s. Retake it as often as you need.
4A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final quiz are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion: not a diploma, not a certification, not recognised by any Medical Council, the National Medical Commission, any university or any Bar body, and it carries no continuing medical education credit.
The eight modules, and what each one leaves you able to do
01The four forums a doctor can be called beforeYou will be able to take any letter, notice or summons that arrives at your clinic, work out which of the four forums it has come from, and know what that forum can and cannot do to you.Open first
02The standard of careYou will be able to look at a decision you made in a clinic and say, in a sentence, what a court would actually measure it against, and write the four extra lines in the file that put that measurement within reach.12 min
03The consumer routeYou will be able to work out, from the consideration a patient actually paid, which commission a complaint against you would go to, on what clock, and which three documents in your own practice are most exposed on that route.12 min
04Where the criminal law sits, and what protects a registered practitionerYou will be able to look at a police visit or a private complaint and work out, from the face of it, which provision is being invoked, whether the offence is bailable, and which procedural steps have to happen before anyone can proceed against you or arrest you.12 min
05RecordsYou will be able to say, for any document in your clinic, how long you must hold it, who is entitled to a copy and in what time, and what you must never do to it once anything has gone wrong.12 min
06ConsentYou will be able to look at your own consent form and tell whether it would actually hold, on scope, on who signed it, and on whether the patient understood it.12 min
07The first seventy two hours after something goes wrongYou will be able to work through the first seventy two hours after an adverse event in a fixed sequence: what you record and how, what you must not touch, who has to be told and when, and where a police intimation duty actually exists as opposed to where people say it does.12 min
08Indemnity, and what your policy does not coverYou will be able to read your own policy schedule and wording against a fixed set of structural questions, and put those questions in writing to your own insurer or broker.12 min
This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the primer is advice about any particular patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.
It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to treat anybody.
Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.
Where a matter needs a lawyer, we say so. Representation before any forum, and any formal legal opinion, is arranged separately with an empanelled advocate of the High Court of Bombay and is charged separately.
The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.