Risk Management Seminar on the PRMS Blog

Choosing a malpractice insurance policy is one of the first – and most important – decisions you will face in your career. And as a resident, you may have a lot of questions: How much is malpractice insurance? When does a psychiatrist need malpractice insurance? What is a claims made policy versus occurrence insurance policy? Luckily, the experienced team at PRMS is equipped to ...

Make no mistake, religion and spirituality can help some people struggling with mental health conditions and often plays a big role in recovery. Inclusive and welcoming congregations often have outreach programs for people with mental health conditions or mental health ministries. But some – particularly in the South – view mental illness as a moral failing. In its 50th anniver ...

PRMS is pleased to announce that it is making its psychiatry-specific Excess Risk Management courses available online - at no charge - to all New York psychiatrists, including those not insured through the PRMS program. Our risk managers are experts in psychiatric malpractice risk management and we are sharing our expertise with the entire New York psychiatric community as part ...

PRMS heads to the suburbs of city of brotherly love this fall as we offer yet another great opportunity to earn CME credit, learn ways to reduce liability risks and recognize emerging trends in the field of psychiatry. PRMS is pleased to present “Medications, Electronic Health Records and More: Managing the Risks of Current Liability Trends” on November 8th in King of Prussia, ...

Let’s face it, the practice of psychiatry is one that is often quite challenging and mitigating the risks associated with this responsibility requires both a solid risk management plan and a working knowledge of the emerging trends within your specialty.   Every day psychiatrists and other behavioral health professionals contact our risk management team to receive expert guidan ...

PRMS will be at this year’s APA Annual Meeting, as it has been for every annual meeting since 1987. We truly do look forward to this meeting all year, because we know that we will see so many of our clients, both long-term and brand-new, face-to-face. We have posted our locations and agenda on our website, but in short, you can attend one of our CME risk management seminars on ...

We invite you to join us October 22, 2012 in San Francisco, CA for our upcoming risk management seminar on Current Liability Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Opportunities to Minimize Risk. ...

One of the unique benefits of purchasing professional liability insurance through PRMS is access to our extensive risk management services. We have always believed that providing information and resources that help psychiatrists provide better patient care is the best way to reduce exposure to liability. We like to highlight our expertise in risk management through the seminars ...

We’re offering a Risk Management Seminar in Las Vegas, NV, The Impact of Professional Liability Litigation on Physicians and Opportunities to Reduce Risk, on Friday, July 20, 2012. We believe the issue of litigation stress is an important one.  In this seminar, we help you with this issue.  Here’s the link to our website with details http://www.psychprogram.com/seminars/. You’l ...

I returned to the office yesterday from the 2012 Annual Meeting. While this meeting was unique in that we weren’t on the exhibit floor, we still had the opportunity to meet with many of our customers. I had the following thoughts, observations, and reactions (in no particular order). Thanks to everyone who made their way to our hospitality suite in the Ritz Carlton Hotel. We ha ...