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For 20 years, ELM Exchange, Inc. (ELM stands for Education in Legal Medicine) has provided a unified curriculum for health care providers aimed at lowering the risk of compensable harm to patients. ELM programs have been successfully completed by over 100,000 providers in every medical specialty. ELM courseware fulfills the critical need for physicians and hospitals today in understanding the risk climate in which they work, their roles in protecting patient safety and in gaining perspective on societal expectations of their professional conduct. ELM enables physicians and other healthcare providers to make an anticipatory recognition of situations in which risk of harm is likely to arise or patient safety is compromised, and make more confident decisions as a result.
The ELM Curriculum is developed by a faculty of physician-attorneys with decades of educational and clinical experience in analyzing quality and risk issues. Backed by this expertise, ELM delivers a nationally recognized curriculum conveniently through the Internet. The ELM curriculum is derived from the seminal reference text, Medical Law for the Attending Physician by Sal Fiscina, M.D., J.D., ELM’s founder.
At ELM’s inception, the education was delivered via printed, self-study courses. With the advent of the web, ELM developed a technology platform with which to develop and deliver courses flexibly so that they could be customized based on client need and targeted according to individual physician or specialty focus. Through this online delivery platform, ELM offers dynamic content, progress testing, targeted feedback, and real-time reporting for course administrators. In the summer of 2001, ELM piloted a series of courses with the resident physicians from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. With their feedback and response, both the technology platform and the course materials were refined and optimized before rolling out programs to New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital and the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2002. Since then, ELM programs have been implemented in over 110 healthcare institutions.