Learn like you were there!

Content available November 9, 2024.

Take a front-row virtual seat at this Academy virtual course recorded in November 2023: 25th Annual AAOS Workers’ Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries Virtual Course.  

Course Directors: J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS and R. David Bauer, MD, FAAOS

This OnDemand video program brings the finished event to you as faculty present 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 Courses OnDemand program features 34 lectures from distinguished faculty covering:

- Causation credibility

- Legal credibility

- Patient credibility

- Physical examination credibility 

- History credibility

- Work ability

- Patient advocacy

- CRPS

- IME/QME 

- Musculoskeletal AMA Guides and ADLs

- Patient outcomes 

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

 
AAOS designates this activity for 23 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits™.