Feb 01,2021
Course details
This web-based course on ‘Medical Certification of Cause of Death’ can be taken up at one’s own free time and convenience. It provides an opportunity for all doctors who are busy practitioners and are otherwise unable to travel or obtain leave to attend CME (Continuing Medical Education) programmes.
Course Objectives
Medical Certification of Cause of Death (death certificate) is an important source of cause-specific mortality data for a country. Apart from being a public health surveillance tool, a medical death certificate is also a legal document for the family of the deceased. The medical practitioner has to issue a ‘death certificate’ to the family of the deceased. Inaccurate entries in these death certificates can lead to incorrect mortality data collection, faulty public health measures and legal hassles.
Course Schedule
NO |
NAME |
DURATION |
1 |
Module 1: Certification of Cause of Death |
|
1.1 |
Unit 1: Introduction to Cause of Death |
50 min |
1.2 |
Unit 2: Ascertaining the Cause of Death |
90 min |
1.3 |
Unit 3: Death Certificate – parts, types and filling out |
50 min |
1.4 |
Unit 4: Errors in filling out death certificates |
60 min |
2 |
Module 2: ICD Coding |
|
2.1 |
Unit 1: Introduction to Clinical Coding |
30 min |
2.2 |
Unit 2: Assigning an ICD code |
50 min |
2.3 |
Unit 3: Filling in the ICD code on a death certificate |
60 min |
3 |
Module 3: Mortality statistics in India |
|
3.1 |
Unit 1: Mortality statistics in India |
30 min |
3.2 |
Unit 2: Practical aspects of certification |
30 min |
4 |
Module 4: MCCD in the presence of COVID-19* |
|
4.1 |
Unit 1: MCCD in the presence of COVID-19 |
30 min |
Course Start date:
1st February 2021
Registration ends: 27th January 2021
Registration
Registration is to be done online at the weblink given below. Payment for registration is accepted via credit card, debit card or netbanking. It is to be paid along with the submission of the registration form and the medical council registration details directly on the website.
For registration,
Who should attend
This online course is suitable for all allopathic doctors (of any specialty) and dentists currently registered with any medi- cal/dental council in India and also for medical interns with a provisional medical council registration.
Organization and delivery
The course will be hosted and delivered online by St John’s Medical College and Research Institute. After successful registration, all participants will be provided with a ‘username’ and ‘password’. The course can then be accessed any time using a desktop, laptop or tablet.
Course fee:
Rs. 840/- (Eight hundred and forty only) plus 18% service tax for new applicants; Rs 150/- all inclusive, for previous MCCD candidates
For further enquiry and registration, contact
Course Director
Dr Prem K. Mony, MD
Professor & Head
Division of Epidemiology & Population Health
St. John’s Research Institute
Bangalore - 560034, India
Course Coordinator
Dr Kavya. R, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Population Health
St. John’s Research Institute
Bangalore - 560034, India
E-mail: epibio@sjri.res.in
Ph: (080)49467032