This program helps create a contractual basis for physician-patient relationships which rests upon the essential elements that make health care relationships work. The healthcare contract is the basis of independent care, and represents the foundation upon which new payment systems, and liability coverage may evolve.

Collaboration is a growing buzzword in health care. Sometimes collaboration results in express agreements. When it does, it changes the context of professional responsibility. What percent of collaborations of which you are a part result in express agreements? The growing trend in collaboration will produce greater need for role clarification skills.

Available free at this site, this program includes a survey of one's existing decisionmaking patterns. By completing this survey, you will learn the basic dynamics of role clarification, and begin noticing aspects of your practice patterns that you may want to expand, or things you may want to change. This website is designed to support learning from your own experience.

Hawaiian Dermatologist David Elpern, MD told me, "This makes the practice of medicine more interesting and more fun."

 

There exists between doctors and patients certain identifiable patterns of misunderstandings which generate unrealistic expectations, adversity and litigation.

The remedy for these misunderstandings is role clarification and collaborative planning.

 

MEDICAL DECISIONMAKING INSTITUTE offers individual consulting programs in role clarification and shared decisionmaking for physicians and other health practitioners including model forms, and guidelines for self study.