Clinical approaches to teaching legal medicine to physicians: medicolegal emergencies and consultations.

Physicians-in-training generally have insufficient exposure to legal medicine to prepare them for the medicolegal problems they will encounter in practice. This Article outlines the current structure of the field of legal medicine in America, and sets forth two strategies with clinical orientations for teaching legal medicine to physicians-in-training: (1) providing a didactic course offering accurate and practical information on medicolegal emergency situations; and (2) establishing a consultation service in legal medicine capable of providing clinical information or training in such settings as the emergency room, the outpatient departments, and the inpatient wards.