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Comprehensive Litigation Education for All Clinicians

Transform Litigation Fear Into Confidence

✓ Learn at Your Own Pace
Self-paced video modules you can complete on your schedule
âś“ 2 Years of Unlimited Access

Revisit content anytime as your case progresses

âś“ Evidence-Based Coaching Strategies

Tools Dr. Pensa uses with 1:1 coaching clients

Disclaimer: This continuing education course provides general information about coaching, medical malpractice litigation, and mental health. It is not a substitute for advice from an attorney or a qualified mental health clinician or meant to be directive for you in any ongoing litigation. Although the information in this course has been reviewed by defense attorneys, defer to your own attorney’s advice in personal legal matters.

LEAP: The Litigation Education and Performance Course for Clinicians

Scimple Education, LLC designates this Enduring Material activity for a maximum of 16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

LEARN TO NAVIGATE MEDICAL LITIGATION WITH SKILL AND RESILIENCE

Don’t wait until you’ve been named in a lawsuit. Fill in knowledge gaps, learn the skills, and adjust your mindset before it’s necessary. This is what you should have learned in training, but simply weren’t taught. 

If you’re currently involved in litigation, this continuing medical education course can help you make sense of the lawsuit without the need to discuss your case or your care. 

As a professional litigation stress and performance coach, Gita Pensa, MD, helps good doctors, nurses and APPs face the stress and toll of adverse events and malpractice litigation. This helps them return to practice and their lives with renewed confidence, and to perform in legal events with professional courage, skill, and compassion for all.

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LEAP For Clinicians

  1. CME Acknowledgement

    2 lessons
    1. Important CME Information
    2. CME Acknowledgement

  2. Week Two: Getting Your Bearings

    6 lessons
    1. A Pep Talk...And a Reality Check
    2. You've Been Served: Do's and Don'ts in Early Litigation
    3. Stranger in a Strange Land: Getting Oriented
    4. Basic Legalese
    5. Playing the Long Game: Handling Uncertainty
    6. Week Two Wrap Up and Homework

  3. Week Three: The Ecosystem of Litigation

    5 lessons
    1. The MPL Ecosystem: Players and their Perspectives
    2. What's In Your Policy? What You Should Know
    3. Your Attorney and You: A Critical Relationship
    4. Expert Witnesses
    5. Week 3 Wrap Up; Influence, Control and Acceptance

  4. Week 4: Thinking About Thinking

    6 lessons
    1. The Coaching Model
    2. How Does 'Thought Work' Work?
    3. Two Physician Stories: Applying the Coaching Model
    4. The Power of Narrative: "What Are You Making This Mean?"
    5. Common Thought Traps in Litigation
    6. Wrap Up: Fear vs Challenge

  5. Week 5: The Adverse Event and Your Inner Critic

    4 lessons
    1. The Aftermath of the Adverse Event
    2. Self-Criticism vs. Self-Compassion
    3. Shame and Isolation vs. Connection
    4. Week 5 Wrap Up and Tips for Supporting Others in Litigation

  6. Week 6: Deposition Dynamics

    4 lessons
    1. Deposition Dynamics: Goals and Pre-Deposition Preparation
    2. Deposition Dynamics: In-The-Moment Techniques and Pitfalls
    3. What Is Self-Care?
    4. Feedback!

  7. Week 8: Synthesis

    4 lessons
    1. Next Level Legalese
    2. Physician Stories and the Power of Narrative
    3. Application of the Coaching Model
    4. Who Will You Be After You Endure?

  8. Week 9: The Road to Trial

    4 lessons
    1. Settlement vs. Trial
    2. Emotional and Practical Considerations
    3. Overview of a Trial
    4. Jury Considerations

  9. Week 10: On Trial

    4 lessons
    1. Introduction to Effective Trial Testimony
    2. Optics in the Fishbowl
    3. Losing at Trial: 'It's Only Halftime'
    4. 'Nuclear' Verdicts and a Changing MPL Landscape

  10. Week 11: Catalyst and Courage

    5 lessons
    1. Litigation as Transition and Catalyst
    2. Radical Self-Care
    3. Relationship Maintenance and Repair
    4. Course Correction Tools
    5. Returning to Professional Courage

  11. Week 12: Life After Litigation

    5 lessons
    1. Making (Not Finding) Sense and Meaning
    2. Life After Litigation
    3. Love It or Leave It: Your Medical Career
    4. Farewell...and Remember Your Tools
    5. Survey / Feedback

  12. Bonus Q&A Videos/Notes from Spring 2025 Cohort Class

    6 lessons
    1. Spring 2025 Q&A Webinar 1
    2. Q&A Webinar 2: Summary only
    3. Q&A Webinar 3: Ask-A-Lawyer with Marc Calvert
    4. Q&A Webinar 4: Mini Mock Depo and Debrief with Dusty Otwell
    5. Q&A Webinar 5
    6. Live Q&A 6 recording

  13. Post-Activity Evaluation

    1 lesson
    1. Post-Activity Evaluation