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The 31st Annual Medico Legal Congress will be returning to the Swissotel, Sydney in March 2022. We are also offering the option to attend the event virtually.

Join us at Australia’s premiere medico legal event and a highlight on the calendar of the nation’s medico legal professionals. The congress features a highly credentialed speaker faculty addressing complex and thought-provoking medico legal issues, reviewing recent cases, and discussing the future of healthcare and hospitals – from GPs to surgery in a post COVID world.

Topics to be addressed include:

• The liability around contracting COVID-19 as a Health Practitioner, who is responsible?
• Decision making frameworks and determining capacity in children
• Has the COVID-19 era, seen an increase in ‘medical negligence’ as a consequence of a reliance on telehealth?
• The key to medico legal case is being a good expert witness
• COVAX: vaccination exemptions and new developments
• Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh litigation: what you thought you knew
• Voluntary Assisted Dying: Addressing the 3 new Bills
• NDIS – Recent Cases and Trends
• Ethical dilemmas in emergency; treating patients with specific cultural considerations
• The Australian Covid 19 compensation scheme
• Dental Consent issues: “informed consent” vs failure to warn
• Gender Dysphoria
• Addressing good medical practice: sexual misconduct within the clinical setting
• Police detain and transport powers under Australian mental health acts – community safety or violation of rights?
• Cosmetic surgery – myths, reality, and the solution
• Medicare and private health insurance – recent and emerging medico-legal issues
• Rural vs City medicine in Antenatal and Obstetric care