Updated Health Law and Ethics for TCM Practitioners 2023 Recording
Event recorded 3rd September 2023
Presenting Professor Michael Weir, professor at Bond University (Faculty of Law) and author of “Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine 5th Edition” – click to purchase
Keep Up To Date With Australian Law & Ethics For Chinese Medicine Practitioners with NEW UPDATED Cases and Tribunal Decisions 2023.
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”.
Join both Professor Michael Weir and Angela Doolan as they keep you up to date with current updates to health law and ethical clinical practice according to guidelines, which might just save your professional reputation one day and help you avoid any potential litigation.
This year will cover and expand upon the most recent health law cases that have occurred in relation to complementary, alternative and allied health professions. There will be a review in accordance with most recent and relevant cases and updated legislation and requirements.
This course will have the most up to date cases available as of 2023
Webinar Outline
Part One: Our Legal System
- Negligence
- Apology and Liability in Contract
- Potential Criminal Liability
Part Two:
- Regulation of Health Professionals under the National Law
Part Three: Obligation to refer to medical practitioner
- Providing Information to a Client
- Consent to Treatment
- Who can Consent?
- Therapeutic Goods Act – Application to TCM
- Consumer Legislation
- Duty of Confidence
- Professional Ethics
- Advertising
Part Four:
- Court and Tribunal Decisions – MOST UPDATED CASES 2023
About the Presenters
Professor Michael Weir is a professor and lecturer 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”, Dr Weir is the perfect person to keep us up to date with our legal and ethical obligations as acupuncturists and Chinese medicine practitioners in Australia.
Angela Doolan 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
She is also a Southern Cross University trained and experienced naturopath, having worked for many years in Northern New South Wales as well as the foundational Chair of the Australian Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists (ARONAH). Angela understands some of the practical difficulties that can arise when working with the public in health care settings.
What You Get After You Complete The Course
- Notes to keep
- 4 CPD Points
- CPD Certificate
- 5 year access
- Unlimited revisions during access period