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someone (can not recall who) once told me that you could only give engineering testimony in court if you were a licensed PE.
no idea if that is true or not. do you have to be a licensed doctor to give expert medical testimony in court? (no idea there either.)
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I don't know for sure, but I think the answer to both those questions is "If you're qualified with certificates to prove it" then you can be called upon to give testimony in court.
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I can only speak for South Australia as the laws re medical registration do vary a little between the states of Australia (but very little). To be a 'legally qualified medical practitioner' you need to have completed a certified medical degree/s, and have a certificate of Current Registration. This certificate alone costs about $800/year and it requires notification of all legal proceedings (except minor traffic infringement) and a certificate of completion of a continuous professional development (CPD) program in the prior year - typically in the order of 100hrs of education etc. Membership of organisations that orchestrate the CPD 'accreditation' cost typically about $1200AUD/yr and this does not include the courses/conference costs. Typically written proof of CPD activities is required.
Specialist/consultant physician registration is in addition to general registration and requires initial additional qualifications (the Universities typically consider them the equivalent of a Masters) and these are typically administered by a 'College of....' These organisations often administer their own CPD course but one cpd program is typically all that is required to cover both specialist and general registration.
Most 'experts' are specialists or consultant physicians (note in the AUS and UK a consultant physician is quite different from the USA system).
I cannot see that someone who is not registered with the medical board (now called the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency or AHPRA) would be ever considered to be used as an expert medical witness.
Typically your cv and general standing is of major importance as a lot of pre-court bravado and opinion waving goes on.
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interesting. here in pennsyltucky in order to renew a PE every two years you have to be prepared to prove you have completed 24 professional development hours (pdh) of training in the previous period. BUT it is just a matter of checking a box on the application form that says you did so.
so i guess we pipe smoking elbow patch wearing gentlemen trust one another? am guessing that if you get in any kind of trouble they will ask for the certificates and if you can't provide them it is another reason to sanction you.
when i sat for my PE exam up in harrisburg in 1982 the room was full to overflowing. all the other guys seemed to know one another. over lunch i asked what was up. turned out one of the findings resulting from that little kerfuffle over at three mile island was a lack of professional staffing in the various of firms responsible for operations and maintenance. the guy beside me said it was his 2nd attempt and if he flunked the test 3 times he had to go look for employment elsewhere.
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