Eight modules, plus a free bonus module · ten quizzes · about four hours · Rs. 4,999
The Resident’s Bedside Handbook: Calls, Notes and Nights on Duty
What the law expects of you on the ward and on call, and how your notes show you did it.
In short
Who it is for. Resident doctors in India, postgraduate and senior residents, and interns on ward and night duty.
What you learn. Where you stand in law; calling your consultant and writing the call down; notes and handovers; unsafe tasks and absent seniors; consent at your level; medico-legal cases and violence on night duty; WhatsApp and patient photographs; and the first 24 hours after a complaint.
What you get. Eight modules, a pocket card with every one, ten scored quizzes and a certificate. One payment, twelve months of access.
Module one and its quiz open without payment and without a card. The course is general education, not advice on any live matter. If you have already been served with a notice, a complaint, a show cause notice or an FIR, take advice now.
As a resident you are a registered doctor with your own duty to every patient you see, often at night, often alone, and usually with a senior who is busy somewhere else. This course sets out, plainly, where you stand in law and what protects you on every shift: when and how to call your consultant and how to write the call down; notes, orders and handovers that stand up later; what to do when a task is beyond you or your senior does not come; consent at your level; medico-legal cases, the police and violence on night duty; WhatsApp groups and patient photographs; and the first 24 hours if your name is on a complaint. Every module ends with a pocket card to save on your phone. It is general education, not advice on any live matter: if you have already been served with a notice, a complaint, a show cause notice or an FIR, take advice now rather than wait for the course.
Prepared and taught by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, Medicolegal Consultant and Founder, DoctorLawyer™, in consultation with a High Court advocate.
8written modules
10scored quizzes
45applied questions
8pocket cards
3.9hours in total
12months of access
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 4,999
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, every quiz, the final quiz 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 where you stand in law as a resident: where you can be named, what each forum looks at, and who answers alongside you.
Decide when to call your consultant without waiting to be sure, make the call in under a minute, and write it down in words nobody can object to.
Write notes, late entries, telephone orders and handovers that a court, a Council or a family can read, without ever altering a record.
Decline a task you cannot do safely without abandoning the patient, and go up the chain when your senior does not answer or does not come.
Take consent at your level: from the patient, in a language the patient understands, and record a refusal so that it stands.
On night duty, treat first, meet the police duties that apply, record a medico-legal examination that stands up later, and act safely if violence starts on the ward.
Decide in seconds whether a photograph or message about a patient should be sent, and keep advice given on WhatsApp in the case sheet.
Know the first 24 hours if you are named in a complaint, why the case sheet must not be touched, and what an indemnity policy will and will not do.
How much of your time this takes
About four 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 written lessons, 17,801 words
about 99 minutes
Eight pocket cards, 2,365 words
about 12 minutes
Ten quizzes, 45 questions, with the authority explained on every answer
about 75 minutes
The scenarios to think through, and the authorities to check if you want to
about 25 minutes
The free bonus module: all eight pocket cards in one place
about 22 minutes
Everything, 33,121 words
about 3 hours 53 minutes
Written in short pieces, to be read on a phone between calls. Each module leaves you a pocket card to save on your phone for the next shift.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About twelve minutes each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Every legal proposition carries the case, section or regulation it rests on, so you can check it. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: a "Where I Stand" card, a call script and log, a handover and notes card, a "Senior Not Responding" escalation note, a consent card, a night duty MLC checklist, a "Before I Send" card for photographs and messages, and a card for the first 24 hours after a complaint, each one screen, to save on your phone.
2
A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five applied questions, not definitions: a situation, and what you would do. Four out of five to pass. 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 quiz across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Sixteen questions, two drawn from each module, twelve out of sixteen to pass. Your sixteen are not the same as anybody else’s. Retake it as often as you need.
4
A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final quiz 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
01You are a doctor now: where a resident stands in lawYou will be able to say where you can be named if something goes wrong, what each forum looks at, who else answers alongside you, and what, on every shift, protects you best.Open first
02Calling the consultant: when, how, and writing the call downYou will be able to decide when to call without waiting to be sure, give a call that takes under a minute and ends with a clear ask, check what you were told, and write a case sheet entry that shows what you saw, whom you told and what was advised, in words nobody can object to.12 min
03Notes, orders and handovers that protect the patient, and youYou will be able to write a note that a court, a Council or a family can read and understand, add something you forgot without altering anything, confirm an order you gave by telephone, and give and take a handover that leaves no sick patient, pending result or "call if" trigger behind.12 min
04Within your competence: unsafe tasks, fatigue, and when the senior does not comeYou will be able to decline a task you cannot do safely without abandoning the patient, escalate up the chain when your senior does not come, record each attempt in neutral words, say what the law does and does not say about duty hours, and, if you are an intern, say what CRMI 2021 requires of your supervision.12 min
05Consent at the resident's levelYou will be able to say which consents you may take; give the four kinds of information *Samira Kohli* requires; take a competent adult's own consent and not a relative's; take and record consent in a language the patient understands; record a refusal so that it stands; and avoid the promises that undo a consent.12 min
06Night duty: MLCs, the police, and violence on the wardYou will be able to treat first and still meet the police duties that apply, say which duties to inform the police come from statute and which from your SOP, record an MLC examination that will stand up later, handle a police request for an examination, and act safely and lawfully if violence starts on the ward.12 min
07WhatsApp groups, patient photos and social mediaYou will be able to decide, in ten seconds, whether a photograph or message about a patient should be sent, to whom and in what form; to write WhatsApp advice into the case sheet so that the record stands on its own; and to propose simple rules that make your unit group safer.12 min
08Named in a complaint: the first 24 hours, and your indemnityYou will be able to list what to do, and what never to do, in the first 24 hours after learning you are named in a complaint; to explain why the case sheet must not be touched; to say what a claims made indemnity policy will and will not do for you; and to ask your institution the right question about cover.12 min
BAll eight pocket cards, in one place Bonus, freeAfter this module you will have every card from the course on one page, and know which one to open on a difficult shift.Free bonus · 19 min
About the bonus module
The bonus module is included and costs nothing extra. It puts all eight pocket cards on one page, with a short guide to which card to open on a difficult shift. It adds no law of its own. It sits outside the eight: it is not in the final quiz and it is not needed for the certificate. It has its own scored quiz if you want one.
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.
