- When: Sunday January 18th 9am-1pm
- Where: New York College of TCM 155 First Street, Mineola, NY 11501
- Fee: Students $65, Professionals $75
- CEU Info: 4 PDA's awarded that fulfill the NCCAOM requirement for Ethics and Safety
RSVP: James Shinol at Thinkacupuncture@aol.com or (516)509-5444
This course delivers a detailed overview of AOM professional ethics, liability and risk by examining real cases. In the sensitive field of health care, a misconduct complaint or lawsuit is not always a result of a practitioner's bad behavior or judgment. Experienced and careful practitioners routinely find themselves facing the prospect of damaging professional disciplinary actions or litigation because they failed to utilize effective risk management strategies. This course will provide practitioners with effective risk management strategies.
Topics covered will include:
-Overview and emerging trends of risk for alternative health care providers
-Avoiding common ethical pitfalls for well-intentioned practitioners
-The correlation between NCCAOM and state misconduct complaints
-The relationship between litigation and ethical complaints
-In-depth analysis of real cases
Presenter:
Michael Taromina, Esq. has an extensive background representing and educating Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine practitioners, institutions, organizations and students. As the Chair of NCCAOMs Professional Ethics & Disciplinary Committee he co-drafted the Code of Ethics and Grounds for Discipline and oversees the adjudication of misconduct cases from all over the country.
As legal counsel to New York State Acupuncture Coalition (NYSAC) he has served an integral role in the drafting and lobbying effort to amend the New York State Acupuncture statute. He is also a Public Board Member (Alternate) of AAAOM and legal advisor to AAAOMs Herbal Medicine Committee, NCCAOMs Regulatory Affairs Task Force, TCM World Foundation, Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY) and Chinese Medical Science Foundation (CMSF). As a faculty member, Michael has designed and taught courses in health law, biomedical ethics, liability and practice management at Touro Colleges Graduate Program for Orient al Medicine, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Tri-State College of Acupuncture, New York College of Health Professions, Eastern School of Acupuncture & Traditional Medicine, Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences and Mercy College.
Contact: James Shinol at Thinkacupuncture@aol.com or (516)509-5444
More information:
In this article Your Right to Know at TCMworld.org Michael Taromina speaks about how standards of TCM practice differ from state to state.
"Timing, on the other hand, was not favorable to the legal birth of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)--and other CAM therapies--in the U.S. State laws created the practice of TCM in the U.S. Unlike Western medicine, the practice of TCM in this country did not widely preexist the laws governing it. (Prior to state legislation, TCM was permitted, if at all, under licensed physician statutes. Remarkably, this is still the case today in some states.) Despite being much older in theory and practice, TCM was only recently imported to the U.S. and therefore subject to unique interpretations by each state. (Note: Historically the U.S. expanded westward by influx of immigration from the West. Had Eastern immigration waves started earlier, we may have developed a dual medical system.) Most significantly, TCM laws were (and still are) enacted under the enormous political influence and control of the embedded Western medical establishment. Medical supervision, medical referral, and medical recommendation are just a few of the many statutory controls Western medicine enjoys over TCM.
The result: Forty states and counting with some form of a TCM practice act, each one with a different scope of practice--a supreme long-term set of problems for the practice, practitioner and public."
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