Seminar for Dentists and Staff
Please plan on joining us for the MedPro Risk Management Seminar and/or Division of Public Health presentation
Our annual Dental Risk Management seminar will take place on Friday, September 20, 2024. This year’s dental seminar topic will be: Dental Malpractice: What it is and how to prevent it; an approach based in risk management and will be presented by Marc Leffler, DDS, ESQ.
This case-based presentation will provide risk management strategies to reduce the potential for being sued for dental malpractice. It will take participants through the dental malpractice litigation process, initially explaining what constitutes dental malpractice and lack of informed consent, discuss the requirements and pitfalls of recordkeeping (focusing on issues specific to Wisconsin), review the most common case types that lead to malpractice claims, provide actual closed case scenarios to demonstrate real-world applications of the principles and conclude with the ways that dental malpractice insurance impacts these circumstances. Attention will be given to the role that office staff members sometimes play in situations that lead to lawsuits, as well as the effects of criticisms by subsequent dental practitioners.
After Dr. Marc Leffler’s presentation, Ellison Hitt, Esq., of Siesennop & Sullivan LLP, will be giving a short video presentation on legal trends and a DSPS update. Ellison defends claims against professional healthcare providers, including dentists, doctors, nurses, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities in malpractice claims and in matters pending before professional licensing boards. She graduated from Miami University of Ohio, B.A. and Marquette Law School, JD. For the past few years, Ellison has represented all of Professional Insurance Program’s insured dentists in Wisconsin malpractice cases.
We will be offering a 1-hour course following the seminar, Dental Infection Prevention Priorities: Notes from the Field. Ashley O’Keefe, infection preventionist with the Division of Public Health. Ashley will share findings from observations in a variety of dental clinics across the state. For more information on this presentation, click here.
Location:
Brookfield Conference Center
325 South Mooreland Road
Brookfield, WI 53005
(The seminar will take place in the Collaborate meeting rooms)
Important Dates & Times:
Registration Deadline: 9/4/2024
Dental Risk Management Seminar: 9/20/2024
Registration: 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Dental Risk Management Seminar: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Division of Public Health presentation: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Registration Fee for Dental Risk Management Seminar:
Dentists: $50
Staff: $25
Registration Fee for Division of Public Health presentation:
Dentists & Staff: $25
An optional sandwich box lunch will be available following the Dental Risk Management seminar for an additional $20 fee. Lunch must be purchased in advance.
Attend one event or both. Participating in this Dental Risk Management seminar allows you to earn 4 continuing education credits and may be eligible for a 7.5% risk management premium credit* for the next three policy renewals. If you attend the 1 hour DPH presentation, you will receive 1 continuing education credit.
More Details and Online Registration to come early June!
*Should you have questions on when your Risk Management credits expire or to see if you qualify, please call your account manager at 414-277-0154 or email us at info@profinsprog.com and we will be able to tell you that information. Insureds who have less than 18 months remaining on their 3-year premium credit may take courses for CE credit and to extend their 3-year premium credit period. Insureds who have more than 18 months remaining on their 3-year premium credit may take courses for CE credit only. No extension of the 3-year premium credit period will be made.
Unable to attend? Click here to see your other options in obtaining the Risk Management credit.