Abstract
Background: This article presents an example application of an e-learning tool for presenting cases with the aim of acquainting medical students with the procedures performed by a court expert in assessing causes and effects of an accident at work.
Methods: The present publication is based on medico-legal expertise dealing with the case of a 51-year-old manual worker of a carpentry company who, due to lack of proper training in handling the machine, severely injured his hand. The main advantage of this publication is the presentation of a series of cause-effect events at every stage of the patient’s treatment that led to minor and major complications and adverse effects. Their starting point was the employer’s evident error, i.e., failure to provide the worker with proper training in handling the machine.
Results and conclusions: The discussed orthopedic case has been implemented in the CASUS base (mainly using the program “Virtual Patients” as tool for case presentation) in the form of a description of a properly carried out diagnostic procedure and equipped with the expert’s opinion and explanation of possible inappropriate decisions.
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Prof. dr hab. Irena Roterman-Konieczna for the help and all substantive comments while working on the manuscript. Thanks also to Ewa Donesch-Jeżo, PhD, for the help in translating the manuscript.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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