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
Presenters
Roshana May, Lawyer, Consultant
Roshana has over 35 years experience in both private and public sector roles as a personal injury lawyer with a particular focus on the NSW statutory compensation schemes. Currently working as a consultant, her most recent public sector role was as Director, Policy Strategy and Support following three years as the Director ILARS at the Independent Review Office (IRO, formerly WIRO). She is a recognised subject matter expert in workers compensation law and practice. She has a keen interest in workers compensation policy formulation and has represented the legal profession in numerous reform and change processes in the NSW workers compensation and CTP insurance schemes. Roshana is a current member of the Injury Compensation and Costs Committees of the Law Society of NSW and a member of the Specialist Accreditation Committee in Personal Injury Law. She is the current NSW Director of the Australian Lawyers Alliance.
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.
