As a health care professional it is important to know what constitutes medical negligence. A basic knowledge about medical negligence will help a dental professional to practice his profession without undue worry about facing litigation. Hence a CDE program was organized by the department and around 105 participants attended the program from SDC, other dental colleges as well as dental practitioners in Tamilnadu.
Lectures were given on the following topics, ‘Medical negligence’ by Dr. S. Ramalingam, Senior assistant professor, Madras Medical College; ‘Legal consequences of Medical negligence’ by Purnima Sivaraman, Assistant professor, Saveetha school of law; ‘Recent judgements in Medical negligence’ by Ms Shabnam Banu, Advocate, Madras High court and ‘Legal and ethical responsibilities of dental professionals’ by Dr L. Leelavathi, Senior Lecturer, Saveetha dental college.
