Program Description
Suffering from Burnout? Need a Career Change? Looking for something new and interesting where you will be able to apply your years of medical training and knowledge outside of a clinical setting?
There has been and continues to be a need for well-trained legal medical professional consultants who come from a medical professional background and have basic knowledge of how our legal system works.
The Legal Medical Professional Consultant (LMPC) Certificate is a one-year certificate that is with a student plan to complete 9 credit hours/3 classes per semester. This Certificate Program offers Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician鈥檚 Assistants the opportunity to obtain working knowledge of law office practices and procedures in a legal/medical position. This program has been structured to include law courses and a course in medical legal ethics.
The Goal of the Certificate Program is to prepare students to work in a law office or law-related business; to be familiar with legal practices and procedures, and have the knowledge/ability to conduct a thorough medical records review and write a medical legal chronology which are used by law firms, insurance companies and other health-related businesses.