Keep Up To Date With Health Law & Ethics SPECIFIC For TCM Practitioners  (WITH Telehealth/Telemedicine RELEVANCY- 2020 Edition)

Ever since Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine have become registered professions with AHPRA, we’ve had to maintain a minimum of 4 CPD points per year of “professional issues”. While these aren’t always the most exciting ways to spend 4 hours of your life, keeping up to date with current laws and ethical guidelines might just save your professional reputation one day.
Additionally this year, we will have a few points focusing on:

Telehealth, Telemedicine Practice (Covid-related)- can acupuncturists and herbalists practice telehealth according to law and ethical issues? 
Acupuncture styles and non-standardised practice 
Practicing within scope if you are dual qualified as another type of therapist or coach. 

About our lecturers: Michael Weir and Angela Doolan

Michael Weir is a professor of law at Bond University, a member of the the Public Panel of Assessors under the Health Ombudsman Act and author of “ Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine”.

Michael has broad professional experience as a solicitor in private legal practice in both commercial and property law. As a professor of Law, he has published extensively on Land Law, and Complementary Medicine and the law.  Michael has a research interest in Medicine and the Law, with a focus on complementary and alternative medicine and law and ethics.

This interest is reflected in his textbook Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine Allen and Unwin (5th edition 2016). He is currently the Chair of Graduate Research for Bond University

This year we also welcome to our presenter’s table, Angela Doolan (PhD scholar), naturopath and lawyer.

Angela is currently studying a PhD at Bond University under Professor Michael Weir and Associate Professor Wendy Bonython. Her current topic is “Protecting the Public from Harm? Optimizing the Regulation of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practitioners in Australia.”

Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from the University of New England, Armidale. Her honours thesis was on The Right to Health and Traditional and Complementary Medicine in International Law. An article summarising this work is available at the Bond Law Review online at  https://blr.scholasticahq.com/article/11881-evolution-and-complementarity-traditional-and-complementary-medicine-as-part-of-the-international-human-rights-law-right-to-health. 

Angela will explain what the regulation of health practitioners is in Part 2 of this webinar and how it works, along with some of TCM practitioner legal and professional obligations under the National Law.

In Part Four she will present some of the court and tribunal cases where practitioners have failed to meet their obligations under the law and how you can potentially avoid this happening to you.

Michael and Angela are perfectly placed to keep us up to date with our legal and ethical obligations as registered Acupuncturists and Chinese medicine practitioners in Australia

This seminar will have the most up to date cases available

What is Covered 

Part 1
Presenter: Michael Weir
1. Our Legal System
2. Negligence
3. Apology and Liability in Contract
4. Potential Criminal Liability

Part 2
Presenter: Angela Doolan 
5. Regulation of Health Professionals under the National Law

Part 3
Presenter: Michael Weir
6. Part Three: Obligation to refer to medical practitioner
7. Providing Information to a Client
8. Consent to Treatment
9. Who can Consent?
10. Therapeutic Goods Act – Application to TCM
11. Consumer Legislation
12. Duty of Confidence
13. Professional Ethics
14. Advertising

Part 4
Presenter: Angela Doolan
15. Part Four: Court and Tribunal Decisions

What You Get When You Register Today

• 4 CPD points that cover you for professional issues according to AHPRA
• An understanding of our legal obligations as registered health care professionals
• 3 hours, 55 minutes of video footage
• 5 year access