ACOEM Member Price: $59
Non-Member Price: $89
ACOEM’s Essentials of Occupational Medicine program will be comprised of approximately 60 individual courses in 15 sections and provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the clinical, technical, and professional concepts of the field for the non-specialist or new entrant.
This course covers Malingering. It encourages medical examiners to look at all relevant information and the medical history to determine if the symptoms of malingering are present. This course is designed to education health professionals on steps needed to properly investigate, examine, and complete thorough and comprehensive evaluations of patients.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
1. Discuss current psychosocial issues in disability evaluation such as symptom amplification, secondary gain, and malingering.
2. Accurately and consistently identify the characteristics of malingering such as symptom faking, inconsistency, incongruency, incoherence, discontinuity, or non-compliance.
3. Identify analytic techniques.
Original Posting Date: May 25, 2022
Termination Date: May 25, 2025
Intended Audience
The course provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to graduated return to work programs for the non-OEM specialist or new entrant.
Accreditation and Credit Designation Statement
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”
Content Planner and Faculty
Robin F. Griffiths, MBCHB, FAFOEM, FFOM, MPP, FACOEM
Director of Occupational & Aviation Medicine at the University of Otago Wellington
Content Planner and Faculty Disclosure
Nothing to Disclose
Cancellation Policy
This activity is available on-demand, and those who register will receive access automatically. Please be sure that this is the course you wish to purchase as refunds are not permitted after the transaction is complete.