Understanding medicolegal duties, testifying in court, formulating arguments and expressing opinions, possessing all the necessary medicolegal knowledge. Assimilating the critical knowledge required to be an expert. Note: Course given in English for health professionals outside Quebec.

Canadian legal system, information on the ethics and confidentiality guidelines for medicolegal evaluators, recommendations on absenteeism, advice for testifying in court, statutes governing insurance companies. Note: Course given in English for health professionals outside Quebec.

Familiarization with the laws in force, the Civil Code, the Criminal Code, access to information, pension plans, occupational injuries and diseases, health insurance, hospitalization, ethics, professional liability. Note: Course given in English for health professionals outside Quebec.

Familiarization with multidisciplinary IMEs, mitigation of injury and loss, concept of reasonable accommodation, scientific evidence. Return to work guidelines, impairment rating principles, catastrophic injuries, automobile insurance and SABS, searching legal decisions.

Familiarization with different types of insurance, laboratory tests, insurability risk assessment, use of weight and blood pressure in insurability risk assessment. Note: Course given in English for health professionals outside Quebec.

Familiarization with risk assessment in underwriting, analysis of disability insurance claims, medical conditions of each system, most frequently encountered tumours. Note: Course given in English for health professionals outside Quebec.

Become familiar with the requirements of a position. Understand the effects of alcohol and drugs on the occurrence of accidents. Learn the approach to dealing with chronic pain. Understand somatoform disorders.

Become familiar with the access to information laws. Understand the legal problems encountered at the end of life. Remain independent and provide expert opinions on medical issues to lawyers and decision makers.