Education and risk management

MPS is committed to helping you avoid problems and provide the best care for your patients

MPS strongly believes in the preventative value of education and risk management. MPS has a wealth of experience and expertise in helping doctors and other healthcare professionals with ethical and legal problems, and in reducing the risks that arise from their practice. This provides a unique insight into the reasons why things go wrong and why complaints and litigation occur, and into what can be done to reduce this.

The educational programmes available are based on more than 100 years’ experience and expertise in this field. One of the features of many complaints and claims against healthcare professionals is that of poor communication. In 2007, MPS formed a specialist education department, Educational Services, to ensure that members worldwide have access to world class education. It also acquired a company specialising in providing training and education in communication skills and risk management to healthcare professionals throughout the world.

Members in the Caribbean have access to these widely acclaimed courses and a range of education that is being constantly tailored to meet the needs of healthcare professionals in the Caribbean.

We also produce a range of educational materials, including Casebook and other medicolegal publications, information leaflets and online educational products. The MPS website contains useful advice for reference or download, and printed copies of our publications are also available to members.

Support for medical students

Because we believe that education is an integral part of every health professional’s continuing development, we offer educational programmes for medical students to introduce them to ethical and medicolegal issues at the very start of their careers.

Stakeholder engagement

We play an active role in the health-policy sphere, exercising our influence to ensure that legislation and government policy decisions take into account the views and interests of members and the wider profession.