Medicolegal training in the UK unlike Medical Education generally, is mostly undertaken in the classroom and therefore didactic and out of date. Yet the literature on the subject of medicolegal education is silent, research being entirely non-existent. It is likely that this be due to the practice of medicolegal work being remote and undertaken outside mainstream medicine, usually in the private sector.
Indeed even important contributions to Medical Education ( De Cossart and Fish 2005; De Cossart and Fish 2007 ) which can be said to have changed Medical Education for ever do not include chapters on the subject of Medicolegal Education.
One study (Spoto 2018) where medicolegal practice was included in the Job Description (JD) of a large rotational scheme for Higher Psychiatric Training in the South East of England shows the new scheme to have been very successful. However the Study which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK is yet to be replicated.
The placement where the experience was available was very popular with trainees and a number of trainees were later found in the study to have started their own medicolegal practice as a Consultant some even becoming Medical Members of the 1st Tier Tribunal (Mental Health).
The study shows the introduction of medicolegal experience in the JD of Higher Psychiatric trainees to be entirely feasible also demonstrating the importance of early medicolegal experience both in terms of generating more Experts and increasing the pool , but also in terms of recruiting new Medical Members to the 1st Tier Tribunal (Mental Health) .
It is clear that more research is required in this regard however this has so far met with insurmountable obstacle, for example the Consultant Contract and lack of familiarity with Action Research (Elliott 1991).
GS Medical Group builds on the original study and is today the only Medical Organisation in the UK that is able to provided up to date Medicolegal Education based on practice entirely on a commercial basis. A copy of the JD is available here.
Indeed even important contributions to Medical Education ( De Cossart and Fish 2005; De Cossart and Fish 2007 ) which can be said to have changed Medical Education for ever do not include chapters on the subject of Medicolegal Education.
One study (Spoto 2018) where medicolegal practice was included in the Job Description (JD) of a large rotational scheme for Higher Psychiatric Training in the South East of England shows the new scheme to have been very successful. However the Study which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK is yet to be replicated.
The placement where the experience was available was very popular with trainees and a number of trainees were later found in the study to have started their own medicolegal practice as a Consultant some even becoming Medical Members of the 1st Tier Tribunal (Mental Health).
The study shows the introduction of medicolegal experience in the JD of Higher Psychiatric trainees to be entirely feasible also demonstrating the importance of early medicolegal experience both in terms of generating more Experts and increasing the pool , but also in terms of recruiting new Medical Members to the 1st Tier Tribunal (Mental Health) .
It is clear that more research is required in this regard however this has so far met with insurmountable obstacle, for example the Consultant Contract and lack of familiarity with Action Research (Elliott 1991).
GS Medical Group builds on the original study and is today the only Medical Organisation in the UK that is able to provided up to date Medicolegal Education based on practice entirely on a commercial basis. A copy of the JD is available here.
