A PRESENTATION OF CLINICAL SITUATIONS
The ELM Curriculum explores the interaction between the law and medicine by illustrating the legal issues and principles involved in real, clinical situations. Case studies portray specific clinical events, not to teach physicians the specific law, but to teach them to assess the legal acceptability of their professional conduct.

The course asks the participant to assess the reasonableness of a physician's conduct in varying situations, to evaluate the physician's liability for a patient's injury, and to provide a rationale. Knowing the salient legal points that will be applied to the retrospective examination of a physician's conduct enables a physician to make more assured choices whenever medico-legal questions arise in a clinical context.