This course comprises lectures on expert report writing. The lectures are presented by medico-legal experts from the law, medicine and allied professions.

The topics include:

• A judge's perspective on expert reports;
• Legal requirements of medico-legal reports;
• Generic fundamentals for all disciplines;
• Apportionment/thin skull cases; Communicates information that readers need;
• Presents information accurately and convincingly;
• Establishes your credibility and professionalism to a reader;
• Structures material so readers can find information quickly and easily;
• States key points clearly and without ambiguity so that readers can understand your meaning;
• Uses language and sentence structure that lay readers can follow Lectures from specific branches of medicine and rehabilitation including orthopaedics, surgery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, neuropsychology, educational psychology, industrial psychology including a lecture on what the industrial psychologist requires from other disciplines; and a lecture from the HPCSA tribunal's perspective.