Medical Record Keeping CME Course (May 31 - Jun 01, 2025)

Medical Record Keeping CME Course is organized by Western Institute of Legal Medicine (WILM) and will be held from May 31 - Jun 01, 2025.

Description:
Why take this Medical Record Keeping CME Course?
This course covers topics such as proper documentation, common documentation errors and deficiencies, releasing patient records with and without authorization, medical record confidentiality, and medical record analyzation.

These skills will help improve medical care and enable more accurate communications between care providers. This intensive two day long course is critical for clinicians who have been found deficient in medical documentation either by hospitals or by regulatory agencies and has been approved by the California Medical Board as meeting the coursework requirements of physician probation.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Apply medical record keeping skills which will decrease legal risks, improve patient safety, and facilitate continuity of patient care;
• Integrate understanding of patients and their families of the provided health care;
• Protect patients’ legal rights relating to use of their medical records;
• Learn and comply with legal responsibilities relating to documentation and information disclosure; and
• Enhance cooperation among members of the health care team.