Eight written modules, plus a bonus module with the basics and seven cases · ten quizzes · about nine hours · Rs. 3,999
Teleconsult: The Comprehensive Course
What the law in India, as we read it, asks of a doctor who consults at a distance: the legal tests for stopping or escalating a teleconsultation, who is on the call, the prescription, online pharmacy queues, the record, patient data, platforms, and patients outside India.
In short
Who it is for. Registered medical practitioners who consult by video, audio or text, in their own practice, for a hospital, or on an app or online pharmacy panel.
What you learn. The law in India, as we read it, in the order a teleconsultation meets it: when to stop, who is on the call, the prescription, online pharmacy queues, the record, patient data, platforms and patients outside India. It teaches the law, not clinical medicine.
What you get. Eight written modules, each with a quiz and demonstration templates for learning, a bonus module with the basics, a binder and seven worked cases, a final quiz and a certificate of completion. One payment of Rs. 3,999, paid once, with 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 practice.
For registered medical practitioners who consult by video, audio or text: in their own practice, for a hospital, or on an app or an online pharmacy panel. Are you issuing online prescriptions for online pharmacies? Know the pitfalls. The course takes the law in the order a teleconsultation meets it: whether this should be a teleconsultation at all, and when to stop; who is on the call, identity and consent; the prescription at a distance; prescribing for an online pharmacy; the record, recordings and AI scribes; patient data now and from 13 May 2027; working with or for a platform; and patients or doctors outside India. Every module says where the law we read is not settled, and lists the law read for it. The law is stated as we read it up to 1 November 2026; it changes. The course teaches the law, not clinical medicine: it gives no clinical lists, doses or protocols. It is general education, not advice on your own practice, and it does not review your documents or decide your own case. The examples are built around real-life situations; names are illustrative. The sheets, forms and checklists are demonstration templates for learning.
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
46applied questions
28demonstration templates
9.1hours in total
12months of access
Module one freePrintable handout with every moduleCertificate of completion, see a sample
Rs. 3,999
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.
Apply the legal tests that bear on whether a call should be a teleconsultation, leaving the clinical judgment to you, and stop, escalate or end an ordinary course of care with notice, in a way the record shows.
Identify who is on the call and in what capacity, and take and record consent where someone else initiates it.
Write a prescription at a distance that fits the mode and the medicine list, and keep a register of certificates.
Spot the pitfalls of an online pharmacy queue before you sign for an app, and audit what is issued under your number.
Say what counts as the record of a teleconsultation, and set rules for recordings, phones and AI scribes.
Say which law governs your patients' data today and from 13 May 2027, and draft a privacy notice outline.
Say which duties, on our reading, stay with you when a platform is involved, and read a platform contract with a checklist.
State the Indian position when you or the patient is outside India, and what it does not reach.
How much of your time this takes
About nine 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, 41,508 words
about 231 minutes
The demonstration templates that close each module, 12,779 words
about 64 minutes
Ten quizzes, 46 questions, with the reason explained on every answer
about 77 minutes
The questions to think through and the law read for each module
about 41 minutes
The bonus module: the basics, the Teleconsultation Binder, a reading order for your practice and seven worked cases
about 130 minutes
Everything, 87,471 words
about 9 hours 3 minutes
The law taught is the law in India, as we read it. Every module says where the law is not settled. It teaches the law, not clinical medicine.
How the course runsStart to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About 42 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: Module 1: the Mode Decision and Escalation Sheet. Module 2: a consent script, an identity checklist, a sensitive consultation checklist, a messaging policy and three demonstration consent forms. Module 3: a prescription template by medicine list, and a certificate register page. Module 4: the Online Pharmacy Panel Checklist. Module 5: a record retention note, an AI and recording policy, a first 48 hours sheet, a records request page and a photographs policy. Module 6: a privacy notice outline and a readiness checklist. Module 7: a platform contract checklist, fee and refund terms, a where-I-work grid and a platform selection checklist. Module 8: the Cross-Border Checklist. The bonus module adds four sheets on the basics and the Teleconsultation Binder.
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
01Should this be a teleconsultation at all, and when to stopYou will be able to decide, before or in the first minutes of a call, whether a complaint can properly be handled by video, audio, text or not at a distance at all; explain why the medium never lowers the standard of care; carry on only as far as you have gathered enough to judge; stop a call that has become an emergency without abandoning the patient, by advising first aid, facilitating referral and advising an in person interaction; tell patients truthfully how to reach help when you are not available; end an ordinary course of care at a distance with notice, a route to the next doctor and a record; and record the whole episode as it happened.Open first
02Who is on the call: identity, consent, the people in the room, and sensitive consultationsYou will be able to identify who is on a call and in what capacity; obtain and record consent in the right form for who started the consultation; handle a relative, a health worker or a child on the call; tell the Mental Healthcare Act from the telepsychiatry guidance; and keep five documents (the consent forms among them) that show, later, what you asked, what you were told and who may answer for you on your phone.42 min
03The prescription at a distanceYou will be able to write a prescription for a patient you are not sitting with so that it is complete, signed in a way you can defend, and clear about what is and is not yours to decide; know, in one paragraph, where the pharmacy side begins and that Module 4 takes it further; keep a template for each of the three medicine lists; and keep a register page for the certificates you are asked for after a call.42 min
04Prescribing for an online pharmacy: the pitfalls, and the cross-checksYou will be able to say, before you sign for an app, whether what is on your screen is a consultation; whether its mode allows the medicine in the cart; whether the prescription is complete and may go where the app sends it; how you are being paid and whether you may say no; and what the law has and has not said about the pharmacy that fills your prescription. You will have a checklist for the day you join, for every request, and for every month.42 min
05The record, the phone, recordings and AI scribesYou will be able to say what counts as the record of a teleconsultation, export it the same day, set and write down your own retention period knowing which periods the law actually states, describe what is needed to prove a chat or call log in a forum, decide your policy on recording and on AI scribes, and keep two one-page documents that say so.42 min
06Patient data: the law now and from 13 May 2027You will be able to say which law governs your patients' data today and from 13 May 2027; place your video tool, messaging app, booking app and any freelancer in that picture; explain why a server abroad is not unlawful by that fact alone; avoid the "healthcare professional" mistake on children's data; refuse to collect what you do not need; and write a privacy notice that is true of your practice.42 min
07Working with or for a platformYou will be able to say which of your duties a platform cannot take over; read a platform's ranking, badge and rating features against the NMC Guidelines 2026; see why the fee share is an open question and what facts bear on it; know who can be asked by a patient to answer for a paid teleconsultation; and put twenty questions to any platform contract before you sign.42 min
08Across borders: the Indian position, and check locallyYou will be able to say, for any consultation in which you or the patient is outside India, what the Indian position is and what it does not cover; stop at the edge of what you know and send the foreign question to someone qualified there; read your indemnity wording for the one question that matters; refer money and tax questions to your chartered accountant; and complete a Cross-Border Checklist before you agree.42 min
BStart here: the basics, then your binder, your pathway and seven cases Bonus, freeYou will be able to state the basics the eight modules build on (the two texts of the guidelines, the grid of modes and medicine lists, identity, consent, the prescription and the record); choose the reading order that fits your practice; run every teleconsultation through one page of decisions and audit ten of them each quarter; and apply the whole course to seven worked cases.Free bonus · 105 min
About the bonus module
The bonus module is included in the price and costs nothing extra. Read its first part before you start, or at the latest before Module 2: it sets out the basics the eight modules build on (the two texts of the telemedicine guidelines, the grid of modes and medicine lists, identity, consent, the prescription and the record). It then gives the Teleconsultation Binder (a one-page decision flow and a quarterly self-audit), a reading order for ten kinds of practice, seven worked cases with answers, and a short briefing on the NMC Guidelines 2026. It sits outside the eight and has its own optional quiz: it is not in the final quiz and it is not needed for the certificate, but its first part sets out what the modules assume, so read it early.
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.
