ACOEM Member Price: $295
Non-Member Price: $445
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.
The Return-to-Work Section includes five courses:
GRADUATED RETURN TO WORK
This course covers Graduated Return to Work, a transitional arrangement that enables workers to get back to work earlier after illness or injury, which provides significant personal, economic, and workforce benefits. This course is designed to equip health professionals to be better able to contribute to graduated return to work programs.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
• Identify the health benefits of work.
• Describe the risks and benefits of early return to work.
• Identify role of the treatment provider in return to work.
• Identify return to work barriers.
• Facilitate persistent recovery in return-to-work initiatives.
Content Planner and Faculty with Disclosure
Robin F. Griffiths, MBCHB, FAFOEM, FFOM, MPP, FACOEM
Director of Occupational & Aviation Medicine at the University of Otago Wellington
*Nothing to Disclose
MALINGERING
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:
• Discuss current psychosocial issues in disability evaluation such as symptom amplification, secondary gain, and malingering.
• Accurately and consistently identify the characteristics of malingering such as symptom faking, inconsistency, incongruency, incoherence, discontinuity, or non-compliance.
• Identify analytic techniques.
Content Planner and Faculty with Disclosure
Robin F. Griffiths, MBCHB, FAFOEM, FFOM, MPP, FACOEM
Director of Occupational & Aviation Medicine at the University of Otago Wellington
*Nothing to Disclose
RETURN-TO-WORK BARRIERS
This course covers Return to Work Barriers and looks at multifactorial barriers or obstacles that can deviate the recovery time from what is expected. This course is designed to equip health professionals to be better able to identify and understand return to work barriers.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
• Apply a biopsychosocial approach to planning and monitoring work rehabilitation.
• Accurately identify a range of barrier to return to work.
• Develop strategies to prevent and manage return to work barriers.
Content Planner and Faculty with Disclosure
Robin F. Griffiths, MBCHB, FAFOEM, FFOM, MPP, FACOEM
Director of Occupational & Aviation Medicine at the University of Otago Wellington
*Nothing to Disclose
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
Occupational physicians have an important role in the prevention, detection, and management of work-related illnesses and injuries, but an equally important role is that of assisting affected workers to return to their pre-injury role or alternative work. This course is designed to be an introduction to vocational rehabilitation services and equip health professionals with an understanding of their role in assisting affected workers to return to their pre-injury role or alternative work.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
• Describe the elements of vocational rehabilitation services.
• Identify key providers of vocational rehabilitation services in a range of settings.
• Identify ways that an occupational physician can contribute to vocational rehabilitation.
Content Planner and Faculty with Disclosure
Constantine J. Gean, MD, MS, MBA, MRO, FACOEM
Medical Director, West Region for Liberty Mutual
Past President, Western Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association (WOEMA)
*Nothing to Disclose
WORK DISABILITY PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT
This course covers Work Disability Prevention and Management. It explains the need for a paradigm shift away from managing symptoms to managing functional recovery, so that unnecessary work disability can be prevented. It is for all healthcare providers caring for working age adults.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
• Recognize the nuances and appropriately use relevant terminology, including “disability” and “impairment”.
• Explain the treating provider’s important role in making decisions related to work ability or disability.
• Explain how clinical decisions, for example prescribing opioids, can lead to work disability.
• Connect treatment decisions with long-term impact to patients and to society.
Content Planner and Faculty with Disclosure
Marianne Cloeren, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACP
Associate Professor
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
*Nothing to Disclose
Original Posting Date: July 15, 2022
Termination Date: July 14, 2025
Intended Audience
The section provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to Return-to-Work topics 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 5.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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.