Monday, 1 July 2024
Professional Skills
The Essential Guide to Medical Concepts for the Personal Injury Lawyer
- How doctors
- Distinguish between medically normal and abnormal
- Assess reliability and consistency of information obtained from documents and from claimants
- Assess medical causation
- Reliability and validity of medical imaging
- Distinguishing between objective and subject physical examination signs
- The concept of usual healing times and reasonably necessary treatment
- How lawyers can distinguish between medical fact and opinion
Presented by Dr Richard Sekel, Occupational Medical Practitioner; Co-Founder, IMMEX
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Roshana May, Consultant
*Original Content was created in March 2024
Presenters
Roshana May, Lawyer, ConsultantRoshana has over 30 years’ experience as lawyer, partner, practice group leader and legal profession spokesperson in personal injury law with a particular focus on statutory compensation schemes. She is considered by her peers as a subject matter expert in workers compensation law and practice. She has been involved in workers compensation policy formulation and representation for the legal profession for many years. Immediately before she took up her current role she was the ALA spokesperson in the NSW CTP reform process and ALA representative on the Ministerial Implementation Committee formed for the ‘new CTP scheme’. In her current role as Director of the Independent Legal Assistance and Review Service at the Workers Compensation Independent Review Office Roshana oversees funding of independent lawyers for injured workers in the workers compensation scheme. She is in a unique position with access to significant data which enables the Independent Review Officer to identify systemic issues with the scheme and trends and patterns in legal practice. Roshana is a member of the Injury Compensation Committee and Specialist Accreditation Committee of the Law Society of NSW.
Dr. Richard Sekel, Occupational Medical Practitioner, Immex
Dr Richard Sekel is an occupational medical practitioner. He was on the NSW WorkCover Committee of the 1998 WIM Workers Compensation Act. He is a Fellow and Chair of the Education Committee of Australian Medicolegal College. He is an ABIME Certified Independent Medical Examiner, a Fellow of International Academy of Independent Medical Examiners, has a Diploma in Occupational Health, is on the Training Faculty of the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners, and is on the Editorial Board of International Disability Journal. He is a peer reviewer of American Medical Association Publishing (Publishers of the AMA Impairment Guides). He is a NSW SIRA Authorised Health Practitioner.
