School doctors’ practice comprises specific aspects governed by legal rules. Knowledge and compliance with the applicable legislation are necessary in order to ensure respect of the patient’s rights, to avoid claims of medical malpractice and to assure medical act’s quality. The present study investigated compliance of school doctors’ practice with the applicable legal requirements. All respondent doctors violate the applicable legal requirements. Future quantitative research is necessary to measure the amplitude of the identified vulnerabilities. INTRODUCTION special School doctors’ assistance conditions for children with chronic diseases, coordinating the optimal response during medical emergencies and managing school environment’s health and safety. implies ensuring Sports competitions for students represent another special feature in this field, given the school doctor’s task of issuing a favourable notice for competition to students who participate in such competitions following a brief clinical examination, without always having the student’s personal background checks or the possibility to send the student to a specialist for control, without having an appropriate emergency kit and under improper conditions for a medical act which can all generate problems related to malpractice. Specific aspects of their activity expose them in case of ignorance and non-compliance of the applicable legal regulations. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE The assumption under which our research was initiated was that school doctors from Bucharest are not fully aware and do not fully comply with the legislation in force. The research objective was to collect information regarding the compliance of school doctors’ practice with the applicable legal requirements. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present research aimed to identity the existence of a phenomenon (the issue regarding compliance of school medical activities with the applicable legal provisions) and to establish the framework for possible future quantitative research addressed to the newly developed area of interest. The target group included 25 general practitioners activating as school doctors in Bucharest. Sample was selected taking into account the qualitative objects of the research, in the sense that we aimed to identify possible specific tendencies among school doctors. The investigative techniques were represented by interviews, which led to structuring of a questionnaire comprising five closed questions destined to evaluate the risk of malpractice in the school doctors’ 1 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department 14 - Orthopaedics and Anaesthesiology, Discipline of Medical Law Aspects and Malpractice, Bucharest, Romania 2 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania 3 Bucharest Bar, Lawyer 69
