Australasian College of Legal Medicine

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Established in November 1995. The Australasian College of Legal Medicine provides a network for doctors and dentists who have completed dual qualifications in law, and medicine or dentistry, or whose areas of practice are impacted on by the law and who have consequently elected to undertake internal College or external training to gain at least a basic understanding of the law as it applies to ...their practices for the benefit of their patients.
The aim is to provide the medical profession and the community with a better understanding of the legal implications involved in the practice of medicine, as well as to provide unique medical and legal insight into many medical issues not available to non-dually qualified doctors or lawyers. The term Legal Medicine represents four broad areas of medical practice; encapsulating the fields of Civil Legal Medicine, Criminal or Forensic Legal Medicine, Medical Ethics and medical practice areas affected by statute law, such as the Health Insurance Act, Trade Practices Act, etc.
A significant task confronting the College is to begin to develop a curriculum. There are two streams, legal and forensic, each of which shares core knowledge as well as its own specific requirements. The Basic Law Intensive (BLI), the Advance Law Intensive (ALI) and the Expert Witness (EW) Course are designed to provide an intensive exposure to the College curriculum but cannot cover all areas of knowledge and are not sufficient on their own to achieve Fellowship or Membership qualifications.
For a Fellowship qualification, the College Articles of Association currently requires, inter alia, a Master level qualification in legal medicine or forensic medicine, or a Bachelor level legal degree. For a Membership qualification, a diploma level degree is required, as well as the BLI, ALI and the EW course. Common to both Fellowship and Membership is the requirement to complete an examination conducted by the College. Waiving the examination requirement should be the exception, not the rule.
The Australasian College of Legal Medicine currently conducts four short courses, normally over the calendar year. These are the Basic Law Intensive (BLI), the Advanced Law Intensive (ALI), the Expert Witness Course, and the recently introduced Cause of Death Workshop. The BLI and the ALI are each run over two days, usually weekends. Both these courses derive their content from the principles that underpin the area of law known as medical or health law. Medical law is concerned with the relationships between health professional and patient, health professional and health facility, health facility and patient, and the organisation of health care. The courses however examine the legal issues from the point of view of the doctor or dentist practising clinical medicine or dentistry, and not specifically from the legal practitioner’s perspective. As such, the focus is on clinicians understanding the increasingly complex legal framework within which they work, and not with the legal practice issues such as bringing on or defending a cause of action.