MPS Scientific Meeting – January 25, 2025 – MALPRACTICE AVOIDANCE AND LICENSURE COMPLIANCE

Presenter: J. Marc Vezina, JD

Specializes in Healthcare law; Practices in Michigan and 3 other states; Special Assistant Attorney General for Louisiana

MALPRACTICE AVOIDANCE AND LICENSURE COMPLIANCE

January 25, 2025

2:00 – 4:00 pm (Eastern Time)

Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute

32841 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI

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2 CME and CE Credit Hours

($30 per credit hour for non-MPS members)

Join Meeting https://zoom.us/my/michiganpsychoanalysis

About the presenter:

Marc has extensive experience defending medical malpractice actions, representing healthcare entities in corporate and litigation matters, representing whistleblowers in fraud and abuse cases (qui tam litigation), and representing religious and educational institutions in matters related to educational and canon law.

Many aspects of Marc’s practice are national in scope. He has successfully prosecuted qui tam cases nationwide and serves as trial counsel on select cases throughout the country involving complex commercial litigation, qui tam litigation, and malpractice matters. 

Practice Gap/Need and Course Description:

Mental health professionals need periodic refreshing and updates regarding malpractice and licensure compliance. An attorney specializing in healthcare law and, here, specifically mental healthcare, will describe strategies for psychoanalysts, psychologists, physicians and social workers to avoid mental health malpractice, i.e. boundary violations, He will also explain how to increase skills related to mental health licensure compliance over the lifecycle, i.e. how to complete early career applications or to adjust appropriately to impending retirement. These strategies and skills will be presented with time for participants to ask more specific questions of the presenter and to be responded to.

Learning Objective #1:Participants will be able to describe ways in which they will be able to avoid malpractice, i.e. boundary violations, in their psychoanalytic clinical practices.

Learning Objective #2: Participants will be able to discuss ways in which they will be able to comply with professional licensure requirements as they practice psychoanalytically throughout the lifecycle.

 *** No Partial Credit Given. You must arrive within 10 minutes of the start time and

stay until 10 minutes of the end time to receive credit.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL WORK

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative.

CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS

The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The views of the speakers do not necessarily represent the views of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society.

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