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Medico-Legal

The Medico-Legal Section has more than 400 members and is serviced by the Section Committee. The Committee meets four times per year to assist in the development of educational activities in the medico-legal area and to provide Council with advice on medico-legal issues.

Activities

  • Foundation for Surgery Louis Waller Medico-Legal Scholarship
  • Combined Meeting of AOA/RACS/AMLC includes AMA Guidelines: Difficult Cases
  • Combined AOA/RACS/AMLC Medico-Legal meeting
  • James Pryor Lecture, delivered at the Annual Scientific Congress
  • Annual Scientific Congress Medico-Legal program

Peer review

RACS Fellows may obtain up to 15 CPD points per calendar year by submitting three Medico Legal reports for peer review.

  • Instructions for peer review of Medico Legal reports (PDF 73.47KB)
  • Assessment form (PDF 174.04KB)

Membership enquiries

If you are interested in becoming a member, please forward your details to the Secretariat

Governance

The Section is governed by a Committee as per the Sections Terms of Reference (PDF 92.12KB) (PDF 276.1KB) reporting to the RACS Fellowship Services Committee.

Committee Chair - Mr Gary Speck FRACS

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Medico-Legal Section Secretariat
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
250-290 Spring Street
East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia

Telephone: +61 3 9249 1237
Fax: +61 3 9276 7432
Email: MedicoLegalSection@surgeons.org

Back to RACS Post Op Podcasts
  • Podcasts archive
  • Preparation for Practice workshops – Get set for a profitable future
  • Counting the cost of health care in rural & regional Australia
  • Strategies to build resilience, reduce stress and maintain standards of performance
  • Welcome RACS new president, Dr Tony Sparnon
  • Combating the rise of mental illness
  • RACSTA: an important support for surgical Trainees
  • Starting out in private practice – what you should know
  • Celebrating the work of surgeons during NSW Surgeons Month
  • Port Macquarie: Tale of two surgeons in a regional city
  • Benefits of surgical overseas volunteering
  • The story behind surgical separation of conjoined twins, Nima and Dawa (Re-release)
  • The effects of unconscious sexism in surgery (Re-release)
  • To treat or not to treat: the palliative care question (Re-release)
  • In favour of a surgical career outside the capital cities
  • Reflections on frontline volunteering
  • How major changes to income protection insurance might affect you
  • Opening up opportunities for women in surgery
  • Coronavirus cash flow assistance for businesses and what medical practitioners need to know about their own finances
  • Using MALT as an audit tool

Related pages

  • Annual Scientific Congress
  • Combined Meeting of AOA/RACS/AMLC includes AMA Guidelines: Difficult Cases
  • James Pryor Lecture

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