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ELM Exchange is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Upon satisfactory course completion, participants receive AMA PRA Category 1 credit and can view and print their certificates. The American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) and The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accept AMA PRA Category 1 credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: The Academic Group
"The physicians of Academic were one of the first clients of ELM and are proud of our partnership in developing educational materials over the many years we have supported each other. Academic is a professional liability association and its members are medical school faculty. Our commitment to education has resulted in a strong relationship with ELM from our earliest days.
Dr. James E. Cottrell, Academic's Governing Board Chairman, Distinguished Professor, Senior Vice President and Dean for Clinical Practice, and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at the SUNY medical school at Downstate in Brooklyn recently took special note of Academic's relationship with ELM. He praised ELM's educational programs that are specially tailored to the risks associated with the clinical education environment. He noted that ELM provides specialized services to specific departments, contributes to grand rounds on campuses, and develops claims strategies for our unique risks. ELM's commitment goes beyond our subscribers since ELM also provides training for residents and even medical students. Many programs are developed and presented jointly.
We have developed an enviable claims loss history for teaching physicians with ELM as our partner and we look forward to providing superior protection for our members in the future."
–Marty Kern, Esq. Executive Director and General Counsel at Academic Group (marty@academicins.com)
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PROGRAM LAUNCH: State Mandated Risk Management Program
ELM programs are widely adaptable and can be applied to state mandated training requirements. The courses help healthcare providers across the country to earn state required risk management CME.
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The Academic Group Celebrates Nearly Two Decades of ELM Exchange Programs for its Teaching Physician Members
New York State insurer credits ELM Exchange Risk Management educational programs for helping to maintain low claims frequency and severity.
ROCKVILLE, MD – February 3, 2009 – ELM Exchange, Inc., a leader in risk management education for healthcare professionals today is proud to announce years of providing educational programs to the teaching physicians insured by the Academic Group (www.academicins.com). ELM has delivered more than 35,000 online courses to Academic's teaching physicians and dentists. Additionally, ELM has conducted regular medical-legal seminars over the past 18 years.
» Click here to view full press releaseFebruary's Case Study has expired, but here is a brief summary:
Case of the Month:
Death from Undiagnosed Clotting Disorder
ISSUE: How should a physician proceed when treatment does not result in the expected response?
CLINICAL SITUATION: Because of a family history, the patient had been tested and diagnosed with AT-III deficiency at age seven but was never told the significance of the defect. This information was a part of her medical records. At age 18, the obese patient gave birth to her son at a local hospital. One week after her discharge, she experienced difficulties, including fever and abdominal discomfort. Her obstetrician diagnosed a bladder infection for which she was given an antibiotic. She returned three days later, complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. She had a respiratory rate of twenty. The diagnosis was unchanged, but she was prescribed a different antibiotic. Her obstetricians never requested her records, even when she mentioned that she had "some sort of blood problem" when she was young. Two days later on her third visit, she was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of endometritis. Shortly after admission, when she complained of leg pain, her obstetrician diagnosed thrombophlebitis and began the administration of heparin, according to a standard medical protocol. At noon, her respiration rate went to thirty-five. By 4:00 p.m., her respiration rate was thirty where it remained until midnight when it stabilized at twenty-five.
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