INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC REHABILITATION
Overview of the roles and functions of rehabilitation professionals who provide services and expert testimony in matters of litigation, such as worker's compensation, personal injury, product liability, medical/professional malpractice, catastrophic injury, and others. Ethical standards, practices, and common situations found in the litigation process.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: RP & SE 125 or 325 Course Designation: Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the roles and functions that rehabilitation professionals fill within the legal system Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the different characteristics and needs which vocational rehabilitation professionals can address in each of the various legal venues in which they may serve Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop an awareness of the ethical standards of professional practice that rehabilitation professionals follow in their work as testifying experts or consultants within the legal system Audience: Undergraduate 4. Discern and state appropriate actions that the professional should make when confronted by unethical and/or illegal practices, in conjunction with their service as a testifying expert or consultant Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and the application of outcomes of key cases and precedents governing the admissibility of testimony and evidence that affect professionals in the role of testifying expert or consultant Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the roles and functions that rehabilitation professionals fill within the legal system Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the different characteristics and needs which vocational rehabilitation professionals can address in each of the various legal venues in which they may serve Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop an awareness of the ethical standards of professional practice that rehabilitation professionals follow in their work as testifying experts or consultants within the legal system Audience: Undergraduate 4. Discern and state appropriate actions that the professional should make when confronted by unethical and/or illegal practices, in conjunction with their service as a testifying expert or consultant Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and the application of outcomes of key cases and precedents governing the admissibility of testimony and evidence that affect professionals in the role of testifying expert or consultant Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027