$975.00 USD

 

LEAP: The Litigation Education and Performance Course for Clinicians

(NOTE: Course Launching on March 17, 2025)

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.

 

Note from a Defense Attorney regarding a Coaching Referral

 

Let Dr. Pensa teach you those skills and self-coaching techniques in this 12-week course, in just one hour a week, on your own time.

Here’s What You’ll Work Through Over Twelve Weeks 

  • Introduction and Course Overview
  • The Origins of Litigation Stress
  • The Litigation Roadmap: Getting Oriented
    • Basics of Civil Litigation
    • Events to Expect
  • Your Two Big Goals in Litigation
  • Basic “Legalese”
  • The ‘Players’ and Their Roles
  • Playing the Long Game
  • The Coaching Model: Facts, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions
  • The Aftermath of an Adverse Event
    • ‘Deservingness’
    • The Myth of ‘Error-less’ Medicine
  • Trauma Responses in Litigation and Mitigation Strategies
  • Physician Stories and the Power of Narrative
    • Application of The Coaching Model
  • Self-Coaching Strategies for Performance
    • Thoughts, Beliefs, Habits and The Auto-Pilot Mind
    • Common Thought Traps in Litigation
  • Approaching D-Day (Deposition)
  • What to Know about Expert Witnesses
  • Deposition Dynamics
    • Spoken and Unspoken Goals
    • Pre-deposition Preparation
    • In-the-Moment Performance Techniques
  • Applying Self-Coaching Skills in Deposition Preparation
    • Managing Fear and Reactivity
    • Recognizing and Responding to Manipulation
  • ‘Next Level’ Legalese
  • Litigation as Transition and Catalyst
    • Radical Self Care
    • Relationship Maintenance and Repair
    • Course Correction Tools
  • Settlement vs. Trial
    • Practical considerations
    • Emotional impact
    • Overview of a Trial
    • Jury Considerations
  • Introduction to Effective Trial Testimony
  • Making Sense (When it’s Not Easy to Find)
  • Remembering Your Tools: Integration and Practice
  • Love it or Leave It: Your Medical Career

Each week will come with outlines and downloads to keep, as well as coaching exercises to work on that week. 

You’ll retain access to the course for one year; watch as many times as you need to within that time.

SIX LIVE Q&A SESSIONS WITH DR. PENSA, including ONE ASK-A-LAWYER SESSION (RECORDED)

    • These sessions are held over Zoom; times will be announced at the start of the course (daytime, evening, and weekend sessions)
    • If you cannot make any of the sessions, send your questions to the Doctors and Litigation team directly through the course platform, and they will be answered in the Q&A session/transcript, or you will receive a response from Dr. Pensa through the D&L team.

 

  • We will not be discussing ANY individual active litigation cases, and Dr. Pensa will not give specific legal advice.  

 

ACCUMULATE CONTINUING EDUCATION (CME, CNE) CREDITS VIA LEARNER+

As part of your enrollment, you’ll receive a 1-year subscription to the Learner+ CME/CNE Platform, where you can earn CME/CE credits from meaningful reflections on what you’ve learned in LEAP. Find out more at https://about.learner.plus/

 

🎉**BONUS!**🎉

Sign up by February 20th and receive 10% off the course price and free access to Defense LEAP, the 6 h CME/CNE Accredited LEAP course. This abridged LEAP covers similar content and is used by several medical malpractice insurance companies for their defendants. This course adds an additional 6 hours of Category 1 CME/CNE credits.

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.