Learn like you were there!

Take a front-row virtual seat at this Academy skills course recorded virtually in November 2024: AAOS Course OnDemand: 26th Annual Workers Compensation Course

Course Director: J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS

Turn to this unique and practical course to develop and improve your handling of the medical and non-medical components of workers’ compensation cases. Explore the current legal, administrative, ethical, and insurance issues in your cases and how to address them.

New topics and faculty offer current perspectives on causation, diagnosis, and treatment options that can improve your outcomes for occupational injuries and illnesses. Learn effective strategies for utilization review, causation analysis, report writing, medical liability, depositions, and communications skills with patients. Content is segmented by topic, so you can pick up where you left off or select lectures you prefer to watch - across your devices.  

This convenient, self-directed course gives you the flexibility to engage with trusted AAOS course content, online at your convenience.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Evaluate patients with musculoskeletal pain resulting from workplace injury and formulate a treatment plan with appropriate return-to-work guidelines
• Manage the administrative and legal requirements of workers’ compensation or medical liability cases
• Compare and contrast surgical and nonsurgical treatment protocols for workplace injuries
• Identify how to avoid unnecessary disability
• Gain familiarity with impairment evaluations and reports
• Improve report writing and develop new skills in office management for work-related injuries
• Use science to document return-to-work decisions 

All course content will be available through March 1, 2027.  

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AAOS designates this activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The CME is not scored and recorded. The CME will expire 2 years from the launch date of the program.