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Attend and earn 1.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
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* Original content created June 2023
IN-DEPTH INSIGHTS FROM THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
Understanding the Medicine and the Roles of the Psychiatric Expert in Mounting or Defending a Claim
- Scope of the work
- Diagnostic systems
- Types of treatment
- Typical workplace and motor accident psychiatric injuries
- Psychiatric assessment regarding workplace, transport accident and personal injury claims
- A brief comment on the relevant legislation
- Requirements of the referral source with examples including WorkCover agents, the TAC, MAA, MAC etc, plaintiff's solicitors and other bodies including Health Complaints Commission, Insurance Companies and others
- Understanding how the psychiatrist prepares the report
- Psychiatric Impairment Guides used in Australia: a brief overview
- Court issues for psychiatrists
- Direct examination
- Cross examination
- Conclaves and concurrent evidence
Presented by Dr Michael Epstein, Psychiatrist
Chair:
Michael Lombard, Principal, Lombard Mediation
Presenters
Michael Lombard, Principal, Lombard Mediation
Michael Lombard is a mediator specialising in personal injury claims at Lombard Mediation. Michael was formerly a Partner at Adviceline Injury lawyers when he was awarded Personal Injury Lawyer of the year 2019 by Best Lawyers in Australia. He was previously involved in high profile cases such as the Bourke street rampage and the Flinders street tram stop attack, as well as a variety of public liability and industrial accident cases. He attained accreditation in Mediation in 2013 and now practices exclusively as a mediator. Michael has also served as a director of the Law Institute and is a current member of the Law Institute ethics committee. He was a Trustee of Lawaid for 10 years, four of which he acted as chairman.
Dr. Michael Epstein, Psychiatrist, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Dr Michael Epstein has been a psychiatrist since 1975 and a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists since 1976. He is a co-author of the Clinical Guidelines to the Rating of Psychiatric Impairment and hence has completed the necessary psychiatric module of the Impairment Training Course for the AMA Guides (4th Edition). He has also completed the neurology module involving Chapter 4 of the Fourth Edition of the AMA Guides. He has trained Victorian psychiatrists in the use of the Guidelines. He is also co-, author of the GEPIC and has since trained approximately one hundred psychiatrists in their use.
