Outgoing &/or Graduating House Staff can obtain a copy of their malpractice insurance for the duration of their Stanford Health Care appointment by taking the following steps:

• Send an email to Stanford Health Care Risk Management at riskmanagement@stanfordhealthcare.org
• Mark your email subject line “Coverage Inquiry”
• Include your full name
• Appointment start & end dates
• Training program name

A copy of your malpractice insurance for the duration of the House Staff’s training will be emailed to the requester within 5-10 business days.

Other helpful information for your new appointment/employment:

• Rotation/Elective malpractice insurance should be covered by the host institution & not SHC.
• In special circumstances where this is not feasible, a malpractice insurance request must be submitted by the Stanford program at the time of the elective request to Stanford GME for approval.
• The Stanford program must provide the following information for these special circumstances where malpractice is requested by SHC:
  • House Staff’s full legal name
  • Stanford Program’s name
  • Host Institution’s name & address
  • Rotation’s start & end dates
  • Host Institution’s full contact name, email & phone #
  • Stanford Program Administrator’s name, email & phone #
• Once Stanford GME has approved the elective & the malpractice insurance, the GME department will forward the request to SHC Risk Management for processin
• The Risk Management team will generate the malpractice request & send a copy of the malpractice to the host institutions’ contact with a copy to the Stanford Program Administrator within 5-10 business days.
• Malpractice insurance requests sent directly to SHC Risk Management without GME’s approval will be returned.
• To learn about the GME Rotations/Educational Activities outside of Stanford Health Care (SHC) visit, https://med.stanford.edu/gme/housestaff/current/away_rotations.html.