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  • Medical Education
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Legal Medicine

Background:

  • Medical malpractice payouts exceed $4 billion USD annually.
  • Over 72% of Emergency Medicine (EM) physicians face malpractice lawsuits by age 55.
  • EM residencies lack sufficient medicolegal risk mitigation and litigation education.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Implement an interprofessional simulation to address the EM medicolegal education gap.
  • Enhance physician understanding of malpractice litigation and risk mitigation.
  • Improve provider confidence in handling legal proceedings.

Main Methods:

  • Anonymous pre- and post-surveys assessed medicolegal knowledge and litigation concerns.
  • An interactive lecture covered malpractice tenets and legal statutes.
  • Simulated depositions used resident volunteers and redacted malpractice cases.

Main Results:

  • 80 EM providers attended the educational event.
  • Most participants initially answered medicolegal questions incorrectly.
  • Post-simulation, a statistically significant increase in deposition comfort was observed (P < .01).

Conclusions:

  • EM physicians exhibit inexperience and concern regarding malpractice litigation.
  • The simulation-based educational event increased physician comfort with depositions.
  • Targeted education can mitigate medicolegal risks for EM providers.