A Medicolegal Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents

Many residents lack knowledge about medicolegal issues. To assess the ability of 64 primary care residents to learn legal medicine, we studied the impact of a medicolegal curriculum in a randomized, controlled study. We measured residents' medicolegal knowledge using a novel test, the Legal Med...

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Published in:Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM 1999-07, Vol.14 (7), p.441-443
Main Authors: Kollas, Chad D., Frey, Carolin M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Chi-Square Distribution
Curricula
Curriculum
Didacticism
Education
Education, Medical, Graduate
Forensic medicine
Forensic Medicine - education
Humans
Internal medicine
Internship and Residency
Knowledge
Legal medicine
Medical sciences
Medicine
medicolegal curriculum
Original
Primary care
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
residents
Seminars
Teachers
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Summary:Many residents lack knowledge about medicolegal issues. To assess the ability of 64 primary care residents to learn legal medicine, we studied the impact of a medicolegal curriculum in a randomized, controlled study. We measured residents' medicolegal knowledge using a novel test, the Legal Medicine Evaluation (LME). We found that the mean LME score of residents exposed to the curriculum increased 15.5 points (on a 100‐point scale) to 65.9 ( p < .01), while the mean LME score of control residents increased only 3.5 points, to 53.5 ( p= .05). Clearly, residents can learn basic medicolegal principles. Thus, observed deficiencies in medicolegal knowledge most likely arise from inadequate medicolegal instruction.
ISSN:0884-8734
1525-1497
DOI:10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.09148.x