Legal Aspects of Sports Medicine

Topics include definitions of sports medicine; the sports medicine team; policies and procedures, negligence and malpractice; informed consent, assumption of risk and prospective release; preparticipation examinations; practice and game duties and responsibilities, exclusions from play, re-entry to play decisions communications with athletes; dispensing prescription medicine to athletes; drug testing, counseling, confidentiality and infectious disease control; insurance risk management, forms and more.