Eight modules, plus a bonus lesson included at no extra charge · nine quizzes and a final assessment · about six and a half hours · Rs. 9,999
Before the First Embryo: Opening and Marketing an IVF Centre Within the Law
What the law asks of a fertility centre before its first embryo and before its first advertisement: who answers, registrations, structure, launches and hoardings, the website, consent and packages, data and telemedicine, donors, referrals and complaints.
In short
Who it is for. Doctors opening or running an IVF or fertility centre, and the owners, investors, managers and marketing teams who work with them.
What you learn. What the law asks before the first embryo and the first advertisement: who answers, registrations, structure, launches, the website and patient images, consent and packages, data and telemedicine, donors, referrals and complaints.
What you get. Eight modules, eight demonstration sheets for learning, eight quizzes and a final assessment, and a certificate of completion. One payment, twelve months of access from the day you enrol.
Module one and its quiz open without payment and without a card. The course is general education about the law, not advice on your own centre.
For doctors opening or running an IVF or fertility centre, and the owners, investors, managers and marketing teams who work with them. The course takes the law in the order a new centre meets it: who answers for the centre’s marketing whatever its structure; the registrations before you open; choosing a structure, including company law duties and staff who move; advertising, launches and guests; the website, social pages and patient photographs; consent, counselling, packages and refunds, including what the law says about any promise of a chosen sex; data, enquiry vendors, telemedicine and patients abroad, and what to do when data leaks; and donors, banks, referrals and complaints. The law taught is Indian law, with Maharashtra State law where a State law matters. Every module states the law as read in October 2026, says where the law is not settled, and lists the law read for it. The sheets are demonstration templates for learning. The examples are built around real-life situations; names are illustrative. It is general education about the law. It is not advice on your own centre, it does not review your documents, and it gives no tax, GST or foreign exchange view: those questions go to your own chartered accountant and advocate.
Prepared and taught by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, Medicolegal Consultant and Founder, DoctorLawyer™, in consultation with a High Court advocate.
8modules, Module 1 free
1bonus lesson, included at no extra charge
9quizzes and a final assessment
9demonstration sheets for learning
6.5hours in total
Twelvemonths of access from the day you enrol
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 9,999
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, every quiz, the final assessment and the certificate. A change of price never applies to a course you have already paid for.
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What you will be able to do when you have finished
Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.
Say who answers for a centre’s advertising, whether a doctor, a company or an investor owns it.
List the registrations a fertility centre needs before it opens, and the order a launch has to follow.
Test a structure against the fee-sharing and referral rules and the duties of company directors, and know what the law says when staff leave with patients.
Check a launch, a hoarding or a guest appearance against the NMC Guidelines of 6 October 2026.
Audit a website and social pages, including patient and baby photographs and scan pictures.
Read consent forms, packages and refund terms as a patient will read them, and recognise any offer of a chosen sex for what the law says it is.
Map patient data and vendors, plan for a data leak, keep records for as long as the law asks, and see where telemedicine and patients abroad sit.
Explain the donor and bank rules, referral payments, and where each kind of complaint goes.
How much of your time this takes
About six and a half hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on whichever device you open it on, one device at a time.
Eight modules, 27,273 words
about 152 minutes
The handouts: each module’s checklist for learning, its demonstration sheet, and the launch checklist, 3,358 words
about 17 minutes
Nine quizzes and a final assessment: 95 questions in the module and bonus quizzes, and 20 in the final assessment, with the reason explained on every answer
about 192 minutes
The questions to think through, and the law read for each module
about 16 minutes
The bonus lesson, included at no extra charge: the launch checklist
about 15 minutes
Everything, 43,297 words
about 6 hours 32 minutes
The law taught is Indian law, with Maharashtra State law where a State law matters. Every module says where the law is not settled. Each sheet is a demonstration template for learning.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About ten to twenty five minutes of reading each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Legal rules are tied to the case, section or regulation they rest on, and our own readings are marked as such. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: Sheet 1, who answers; Sheet 2, a registration map; Sheet 3, a structure comparison; Sheet 4, a launch media plan; Sheet 5, a website audit; Sheet 6, a package and consent review; Sheet 7, a vendor and data map; Sheet 8, a grievance log; and a one-page guide to where each complaint goes.
2
A scored quiz at the end of each module. Ten to fourteen applied questions on each module, and five on the bonus lesson: a situation, and what the law says. The pass mark is on each quiz: seven out of ten, nine out of twelve, or ten out of fourteen; four out of five on the bonus lesson. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.
3
A final assessment across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Twenty questions from across the course, fifteen out of twenty to pass. Retake it as often as you need.
4
A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final assessment are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion: not a diploma, not a certification, not recognised by any Medical Council, the National Medical Commission, any university or any Bar body, and it carries no continuing medical education credit.
The modules
01Who answers? The structure mythYou will be able to say what counts as an "advertisement" for a doctor or a fertility centre, including posts, reels, boosted content and AI material; explain why no business structure removes a fertility centre's advertising from the rules that reach it, and who may answer for what: the centre, its doctors, its owners and its agencies; tell the difference between what a centre may say (facts) and what it may not (claims, offers that solicit, endorsements); name the questions you take to your advocate and your chartered accountant before you choose a structure.Open first
02Registering before you openYou will be able to list the registrations a fertility centre in Maharashtra usually needs, and which law asks for each; explain the order the texts set: application, inspection, certificate, display; tell the difference between a Level 1 (IUI only) and a Level 2 ART clinic, and what each needs as a minimum; say what the texts allow a centre to publish before a certificate issues, and where the question is unsettled.40 min
03Choosing a structure that can market lawfullyYou will be able to compare common structures for a fertility centre on the five questions from Module 1; say who the texts look to when a clinic or company commits an offence, and where the texts leave a gap ("executive head"); spot payment arrangements that raise questions under the fee-splitting and referral-fee rules: shares of fees, per-patient payments, lead-generation fees; list what to take to your chartered accountant and your advocate before you sign; say what the Companies Act asks of the directors of a company that runs a centre, and what the texts say when staff leave with patients or are hired away.40 min
04Advertising, launches and guestsYou will be able to tell an event from its recording, and say what the texts suggest about when a launch communication has a promotional character; explain what the texts say about guests, celebrities and creators: endorsements, testimonials and disclosure of a material connection; apply the factual-information limits to radio, print, hoardings and social media, including how often a message runs; separate press coverage from paid or promotional articles, and say what reposting does; place a doctor's interview, a formal announcement of opening and an owner's own video within the texts.40 min
05The website and social auditYou will be able to audit a fertility centre's website and social pages item by item against the texts; identify claims the texts speak to: superlatives, success rates, patient numbers, awards, offers and packages, titles; apply the rules on doctors' names and registration details, patient images and testimonials, and AI-made content; check that the services listed match the registrations held, and that emergency and grievance information is accurate; decide, layer by layer, whether a photograph of a patient, a baby or a scan may be used at all, and what consent and safeguards the texts ask for.60 min
06Consent, counselling, packages and refundsYou will be able to say what the ART Act requires a clinic to tell a couple or woman before treatment, and who must give written consent; read the prescribed consent form (Form 6) as a teaching text on what a patient must understand; test a fertility package, as advertised and as sold, against the Act, the Guidelines and consumer law; explain what the texts say about withdrawal of consent, storage fees and refunds, and where the texts leave questions open; recognise a promise of a chosen sex, however indirect, and say what the ART Act, the PCPNDT Act, the MTP Act, the BNS and contract law say about each step, including a scan abroad.60 min
07Data, enquiry vendors and telemedicineYou will be able to explain the confidentiality duty that the ART Act places on fertility treatment information, on top of the general duties of doctors; say which data-protection law applies to a centre today, and name the main duties that begin on 13 May 2027; test an enquiry or marketing vendor arrangement against the rules on payment linked to patients, and on vendors who hold patient information; apply the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines to a first consultation by video; say what the texts ask of every consultation however many patients a doctor sees, and what Indian law says when the couple live abroad; say what a centre must do when patient data leaks, today and from 13 May 2027, and how long each kind of record must be kept.65 min
08Donors, banks, referrals and complaintsYou will be able to explain why donor gametes reach a clinic only through an independently registered bank, and what the Act says about donors; recognise arrangements with donor "coordinators", referring clinics and others that the Act and the professional rules speak to; say what the Act says about storing embryos and moving them, including abroad; map the routes a dissatisfied couple can take: the grievance cell, the appropriate authority, the consumer commissions, the medical council, and the Boards for offences.45 min
BThe launch checklist: putting the eight sheets together Bonus, includedAfter this lesson you will be able to put the course's checklists in the order a new centre meets them: registrations, then words, then patients; use the launch checklist as a demonstration template, and know what it leaves to you and your own adviser.Bonus, included · 15 min
About the bonus lesson
The bonus lesson is included and costs nothing extra. It puts the checklists of the eight modules into one launch checklist, in the order a new centre meets them: registrations, then words, then patients, with its own short scored quiz if you want one. It sits outside the eight modules: it is not in the final assessment and it is not needed for the certificate.
The small printEducation, not advice on your matter. Not clinical teaching. No outcome promised.
This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the primer is advice about any particular patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.
It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to treat anybody.
Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.
Where a matter needs a lawyer, we say so. Representation before any forum, and any formal legal opinion, is arranged separately with a High Court advocate and is charged separately.
The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.
