From first principles to your first IME, in three days.
Spend three days in the room, doing the work — building the foundation, working through the business, experiencing a live assessment and leave with all the components to start your IME work.
This isn't a lecture series. You even get in front of a live psychiatric assessment, conducted with a professional actor, where you learn how write a report — using real letters of instruction, templates, checked for inter-rater reliability, where you can leave ready to do you own report.
21–23 AUGUST 2026 | THE MONDRIAN, GOLD COAST
Day 1 is capped at 12 places.
Days 2 and 3 are capped at 30 places each day.
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The program
THE THEORY
The foundations for
IME work
Friday 21 August | 9:00am – 5:00pm | 12 places
How the medicolegal system works, where the psychiatric IME sits within it, and what it actually takes to build a practice that lasts. Also included are civil claims accreditation requirements across Victoria, NSW, and Queensland and report writing essentials.
A session on medical indemnity, AI, and record keeping presented by Dr Owen Bradfield, Chief Medical Officer and Medicolegal Lead at MIPS.
This is the established IME Discovery Workshop — the one that's sold out twice already this year.
$695 + GST
THE PRACTICE
Building a sustainable and rewarding medicolegal practice
Saturday 22 August | 9:00am – 3:30pm | 30 places
The part nobody teaches you.
Includes the business development components of setting up a IME practice including referral development without compromising your independence. Comparing agency work v’s direct referrals. Setting fees and managing a diary that includes both assessments and report writing.
A deep-dive into the PIRS assessment, what it is, when do you need it and what’s involved in doing one is also explored.
$695 + GST
THE IMMERSION
Full mock IME with debrief and report writing
Sunday 23 August | 9:00am – 4:00pm| 30 places
This day is where it stops being theoretical. You watch a full psychiatric assessment with a mental status examination conducted live with a professional actor — including the parts of an IME most training never gets near. Then you debrief, and collectively learn how to write the report working from real plaintiff and defendant letters of instruction. The day closes with a PIRS assessment and an inter-rater reliability check against your peers.
You leave ready to do your first IME.
$695 + GST
PLEASE NOTE:
Those seeking the certification of completion for the PIRS assessment are required to attend both Day Two and Day Three to eligible for this.
CPD points are available for every hour attended. All attendees will also be eligible to apply for Dr Helen Schultz & Associates Alumni Peer Review Group after the conference.
Book 3 days and save!
Each day works as a standalone registration.
Days 2 and 3 work well together as a two-day intensive.
Together, all three days take you from first principles to leaving with all the components required to create a report and set-up your business for IME work.
Why not come for all three days and get 15% OFF
→ Use code CONF3DAYBUNDLE at the checkout to redeem.
Who is this for
Psychiatrists entering medicolegal practice, and psychiatrists already in it who want to go further. Day 1 builds the foundation. Days 2 and 3 take it into applied, high-level territory — the kind of work you can't get from a textbook or a webinar.
What you leave with
◼️ A working understanding of how the medicolegal system fits together and the work that is available to undertake.
◼️ A practical business model and considerations for building or extending your own practice.
◼️ Leave with all the components required to start writing your first report.
◼️ A certificate of completion for the PIRS assessment component. And CPD points for hours attended.
◼️ Three days of conversation with other psychiatrists doing or beginning the same work.
◼️ Eligibility to apply for Dr Helen Schultz & Associates Alumni Peer Review Group
CPD points and
PIRS certificate
For CPD points
The conference counts as a CPD activity overall, across all three days attended. Attendees are responsible for logging their own hours against their CPD requirements, as with any external activity. A certificate confirming CPD hours attended will be provided to every registrant.
Obtain a PIRS Certificate
Attendees who complete Day 2 and Day 3 receive a certificate of PIRS completion. The certificate is titled Understanding PIRS and its Applications, covering the Saturday training and the Sunday assessment activity. It confirms training was completed and an assessment activity was undertaken with an accredited PIRS IME — it is not a formal accreditation or qualification in itself.
Bring your team and save
Sending more than one psychiatrist? Practices booking $2,000 or more in tickets — across any combination of days and attendees — receive 15% off the total.
Whether that's three psychiatrists attending Day 1, two attending all three days, or any other mix that gets you there, the discount applies once your booking passes $2,000.
→ Use code CONF3DAYBUNDLE at the checkout to redeem.
About the venue
The Mondrian Gold Coast is the venue for all three days, and it's been chosen with the working side of the conference in mind as much as the content.
Staying onsite means no commute between sessions and the evening — useful when the days run long and you'd rather wind down than drive home. Gold Coast Airport is around a 20-minute drive away, so it's a straightforward trip in and out for those flying interstate.
Each day closes with the opportunity to keep talking — with other participants, and with presenters — over a drink or dinner onsite. The hotel's restaurants, lobby bar, and pool club make that easy without needing to go looking for somewhere to land afterwards. A lot of what people take away from a conference like this happens in those conversations after the formal sessions close, and the venue is set up to let that happen naturally
More information, including a booking code for accommodation, will be sent to all registrants once you've booked your place.
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21–23 AUGUST 2026 | THE MONDRIAN, GOLD COAST
About your presenters
Dr Helen Schultz FRANZCP
Dr Helen Schultz is a consultant psychiatrist who works exclusively in medicolegal assessment and reporting. Her practice covers historical abuse cases, personal injury claims, workers' compensation matters, and professional misconduct proceedings. She also delivers education for legal professionals and psychiatrists entering this field.
The IME Discovery Session is built around the questions she wished someone had answered clearly before she started.
Dr Owen Bradfield
Dr Owen Bradfield is a dual-qualified medical practitioner and health lawyer, and currently the Chief Medical Officer and Medicolegal Lead at the Medical Indemnity Protection Society. He brings 15 years of experience in the medical indemnity insurance industry, advising and representing doctors across civil claims, regulatory complaints, employment disputes, coronial inquests, and Medicare investigations.
Dr Bradfield is also a health law researcher at the Law and Public Health Unit at the University of Melbourne, a 2020 Fulbright Scholar, and a member of the Australian Government Virtual Care and Telehealth Expert Advisory Group. He is a highly sought-after speaker at medical and legal conferences in Australia and internationally.