MPLS Practice Questions - ABPLA Medical Professional Liability Specialist Exam - MPLS Practice Questions - ABPLA Medical Professional Liability Specialist Exam

Question 1

The four elements of medical malpractice are:

Duty, breach of the standard of care, causation, and damages Fault, injury, money Intent, act, injury, foreseeability Contract, breach, causation, damages

Correct Answer:

Duty, breach of the standard of care, causation, and damages

Question 2

A physician-patient relationship (the duty element) typically arises when:

The physician affirmatively undertakes to provide medical care, or a consensual relationship is otherwise established A patient sees any doctor A patient pays for care The patient enters the hospital

Correct Answer:

The physician affirmatively undertakes to provide medical care, or a consensual relationship is otherwise established

Question 3

The standard of care for medical malpractice is:

That level of care a reasonably prudent physician in the same or similar circumstances, with similar training, would exercise Best possible care Perfect care Any care

Correct Answer:

That level of care a reasonably prudent physician in the same or similar circumstances, with similar training, would exercise

Question 4

The historical 'locality rule' provided that:

Physicians were held to the standard of care prevailing in their geographic community — now largely replaced by national standards Only local doctors could testify Standard varied by malpractice insurance No expert testimony needed

Correct Answer:

Physicians were held to the standard of care prevailing in their geographic community — now largely replaced by national standards

Question 5

Proof of causation in medical malpractice typically requires:

Both cause-in-fact (but-for) and proximate cause, supported by expert testimony to reasonable medical probability Only but-for causation Only circumstantial evidence No causation proof

Correct Answer:

Both cause-in-fact (but-for) and proximate cause, supported by expert testimony to reasonable medical probability

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