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MEDICOLEGAL TRAINING FOR PRACTISING DOCTORS

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Medicolegal training for practising doctors in India, for the hospital staff who work with them, for veterinarians, and for lawyers and law students, from DoctorLawyer™. The first lesson of every course is open before you pay, and the risk assessment and the guides cost nothing at all.

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Medicolegal risk self-assessmentTen questions, about two minutes. Your risk band, the three areas where your practice is weakest today, and a set of written guides to keep.FreeModule one of Medicolegal EssentialsThe whole first module and its quiz, open without payment and without a card.FreeTelemedicine: what actually governs a consultation at a distanceThe free bonus module. It opens by telling you that something you firmly believe is not law.Free

The flagship courses

Teleconsult: The Comprehensive CourseFor doctors who consult by video, audio or text: when to stop, who is on the call, the prescription, online pharmacy queues, the record, patient data, platforms and patients outside India.Rs. 3,999The Doctor’s Social Media PlaybookBe seen and stay within the rules: LinkedIn, Instagram, reels, YouTube, your website and your groups, and working with influencers, whether you hire them, collaborate with them or are one. Five agreements written for doctors, explained clause by clause.Rs. 7,999

Eight practical modules, a working sheet with every one, the template pack, ten quizzes and a certificate. Agreement templates written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. Read module one first, without paying.

Courses for doctors

For practising doctors, clinic owners and residents. The two flagship courses above are for doctors too.

Medicolegal EssentialsThe four forums, the standard of care, records, consent, the first seventy two hours, and what your indemnity quietly does not cover.Also for hospitals and clinicsRs. 2,499Clinic Compliance and Social MediaWhat you must actually register, biomedical waste, the drugs you keep, the staff statutes, and what a doctor may lawfully publish.Also for hospitals and clinicsRs. 3,499Aesthetic and Dermatology PracticeScope of practice, claims and before and after photographs, consent, the products, the devices, complications and refund demands.Rs. 6,999Aesthetic Practice: Consent, Photographs and Patient PrivacyFor aesthetic and dermatology practice: a valid consent, the consultation, consent sets procedure by procedure, clinical photographs, publishing after the NMC Guidelines, patient data now and from May 2027, complaints, and building it into the clinic, with demonstration templates printed in full.Also for hospitals and clinicsRs. 15,000The Resident’s Bedside Handbook: Calls, Notes and Nights on DutyFor resident doctors: where you stand in law, calling the consultant and writing the call down, notes and handovers, unsafe tasks and absent seniors, consent, night duty and medico-legal cases, WhatsApp and photographs, and the first 24 hours after a complaint.Rs. 4,999Your Indemnity Cover: Read It, Keep It, Use ItRead the indemnity cover you already hold: who and what work it covers, claims-made and the retroactive date, the limit, the proposal form, changing cover without a gap, and what to do when a claim arrives or is refused.Rs. 3,999

Each course is eight modules and a free bonus, paid once, with twelve months of access (six for the hospital staff course) and a certificate that verifies publicly on this site. The first two together cost less than the two separately, as do Clinic Compliance and the Playbook together, and the pricing page sets out every figure. For several courses, Doctor All-Access opens all twelve doctor courses for twelve months, and a Library Card lends one at a time: compare the ways to buy.

Courses for hospitals and clinics

For owners, trustees, managers and teams. Staff training is bought by the employer, per seat.

Medicolegal Essentials for Hospital StaffFor front desk, nursing, OT, ward, lab and security staff. Eight short lessons in plain language, each built around a real-life situation staff face in clinics and hospitals, with a quiz and a certificate in the staff member's own name.For hospital teamsRs. 79913 May 2027: Is Your Clinic Ready for the DPDP Act?For clinics, nursing homes and small hospitals: what already applies to patients’ data, what starts on 13 May 2027, notices and consent, children, vendors, security, breaches, patients’ rights and the whole house, with demonstration templates printed in full.Also for doctorsRs. 9,999Before the First Admission: Opening a Nursing Home or Hospital in MaharashtraFor doctors, and owners, investors, trustees and managers of nursing homes and hospitals: registration and who may manage, the building and fire, licences by service, equipment, people, schemes and insurers, quality marks, and opening day and the first year, in Maharashtra, with course sheets and two bonus lessons included at no extra charge.Also for doctorsRs. 6,999Before the First Embryo: Opening and Marketing an IVF Centre Within the LawFor doctors opening or running an IVF or fertility centre, and the owners, investors, managers and marketing teams who work with them: who answers, registrations, structure, launches and the website, consent and packages, data and telemedicine, donors and complaints, with demonstration sheets and a bonus lesson, the launch checklist.Also for doctorsRs. 9,999

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Rs. 799 per staff member, paid once. Team prices from Rs. 519 a seat. Lesson one is open before you pay. Read lesson one  ·  Seats for your team

Doctors in your hospital or clinic also use: Medicolegal Essentials, the Social Media Playbook, Teleconsultation and the Law and Clinic Compliance.

Seats for a teamFive, ten or twenty five seats in any doctor course, or any number of seats in the hospital staff course. Each person enrols in their own name and keeps their own certificate; you see who has finished.

For veterinarians

Medicolegal Essentials for VeterinariansWho may practise and who may help, consent, records and certificates, medicines and antibiotics, euthanasia, complaints, public health duties and the clinic online. The law, the records and the process; no clinical practice.Rs. 3,499

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not a veterinarian. This course teaches the law, the records and the process; it teaches no clinical practice. Read module one first, without paying.

For dentists

The Dental Chair and the LawWho regulates you now that the National Dental Commission has replaced the Dental Council of India, what you may post, consent for implants, extractions, orthodontics, sedation and children, records and radiographs, the X-ray room and the premises, complaints, aligners and chains, and patient data. The law, the records and the process; no clinical dentistry.Rs. 3,999

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not a dentist. This course teaches the law, the records and the process; it teaches no clinical dentistry. Read module one first, without paying.

Dentists and Facial Aesthetics: where the law draws the lineWho can act on a complaint about facial aesthetic work by a dentist, how your degree reads and what it does not reach, recognised qualifications and private courses, set-up, products, consent and photographs, what you say in public, and when it goes wrong. The law is contested and the course says so; no clinical technique, and no qualification to do any procedure.Rs. 4,999

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not a dentist. This course teaches the law, the records and the process; it teaches no clinical technique. Read module one first, without paying.

For alternative therapy practitioners

Before the Needle: Acupuncture, Cupping and the Law in MaharashtraFor acupuncture practitioners and their assistants, doctors and other practitioners who add acupuncture, and therapy-centre owners: registration and titles, consent, screening and referral, needles, sharps and premises, records and patient data, public claims, and what to do when something goes wrong, in Maharashtra, with a bonus module of demonstration templates.Rs. 2,999

For homoeopaths

Homoeopaths and Aesthetic Practice: where the law draws the lineYour registration and your menu, titles and boards, skin, hair and cosmetics, lasers and peels, injectables and procedures, the CCMP and the pending case, working with a modern-medicine doctor, and when it goes wrong. Where the position is unsettled the course says so. The law, the records and the process; no clinical practice, and no statement that any service is permitted.Rs. 4,999BHMS Doctors and the CCMP: the Law in MaharashtraThe two registers, the CCMP and the case still before the Bombay High Court, the drugs law and the prescription pad, harm and complaints, your homoeopathy code, the hospital and the night doctor, and the first 48 hours. Where the position is unsettled the course says so. It does not say whether any doctor may or may not practise modern medicine.Rs. 2,999

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not a homoeopath. This course teaches the law, the records and the process; it teaches no clinical practice. Read module one first, without paying.

For lawyers and law students

Certificate Course in Medicine and Law for Advocates and Legal ProfessionalsReading the medical file: the hospital record, the standard of care, consent and records, medicine in the criminal trial, the medical expert, complaints against doctors, and medicine in other briefs.Rs. 4,999Certificate Course in Medicine and Law for Law StudentsThe hospital file, the standard of care, injuries and the medico legal case, the post mortem and the dying declaration, sexual offences, age and DNA, and the medical expert.Rs. 1,499

Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not an enrolled advocate. This course teaches the medicine a lawyer meets and the law that governs medical evidence; it is not legal advice and it does not teach courtroom advocacy. Read module one first, without paying (advocates and legal professionals)  ·  Read module one first, without paying (law students).

If you would rather speak to somebody

A private consultation with Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, on your own practice, followed by a written medicolegal risk and compliance review prepared in consultation with a High Court advocate. Details and booking are on the assessment page, at the end of your result.

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Questions other doctors have asked, answered and published without their names.

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.

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