Content and Definitions

MD course: The course must include information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Board (of Medicine). The following areas have been determined as the five most mis-diagnosed conditions: wrong-site/patient surgery, cancer; cardiac; timely diagnosis of surgical complication; and failing to diagnose pre-existing conditions prior to prescribing contraindicated medications.

DO course: The course shall address medication errors, surgical errors, diagnostic inaccuracies, system failures, and shall provide recommendations for creating safety systems in health care organizations. And the course must include information relating to the five most mis-diagnosed conditions during the previous biennium, as determined by the Board (of Osteopathic Medicine). The following areas have been determined as the five most mis-diagnosed conditions: wrong-site/patient surgery, cancer; cardiac; timely diagnosis of surgical complication; and failing to diagnose pre-existing conditions prior to prescribing contraindicated medications.