24th Annual AAOS Workers’ Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries + Half-Day Course
Workers' Compensation Course #2203269
Half-Day Course #2203259
Successfully integrate the clinical and non-clinical aspects of workers’ compensation
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.
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“I have come to the course for many years and each time I improve the evaluation of not only my workers’ compensation patients, but all other patients I see on a daily basis." - Previous Course Attendee
Half-Day Course!
AAOS Competency-Based Education For Independent Medical Examination (IME) / Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME)
November 3, 2022
This critical training and review helps you gain clarity on the IME and QME report creation process - a valuable skill rarely taught in residency programs. Evolve your skills in patient history, physical examination, IME/QME report writing, impairment evaluation, and defense at deposition and trial. Training includes faculty critique of actual IME/QME reports. View the program schedule.
SAVE $150 when you register for both courses!
To receive the $150 dual-course discount, please add both courses to your cart before checkout.
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Free Recorded Webinar!
Improving Your Diagnostic Skills and Reasoning
Presented July 14, 2022
Get a sneak peek of important course topics! Hear from Course Director, J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS, along with expert course faculty on strategies to develop and improve your skills for determining valid history and mechanism of injury for slips, trips, and falls, and better interpret and apply MRI findings and reports. Watch now.
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Course Directors
J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS
The Hand Center, University of Kansas School of Medicine
Wichita – Department of Orthopedics
Wichita, KS
Course Director - Workers' Compensation & Half-Day IME/QME
Marjorie Eskay-Auerbach, MD, FAAOS
SpineCare and Forensic Medicine, PLLC
Tucson, AZ
Course Co-Director - Workers' Compensation
Enjoy these articles featured in AAOS Now, written by Course Director J. Mark Melhorn, MD:
- New! Review Key Concepts about Medical Necessity in Orthopaedics (July 2022)
- Workers’ Compensation Cases: Learn the Differences between ‘Medically Necessary,’ ‘Reasonable,’ and ‘Appropriate’ (July 2021)
- What About Whiplash? (July 2020)
- Determining Return to Activity Isn't Easy, but There is Help (July 2019)
- How Causation Is Determined in Workers’ Compensation Cases Continues to Evolve (July 2018)
- Meeting the Unmet Need: Independent Medical Examinations (July 2017)
- Why Workers' Comp Matters (July 2016)
Course Faculty
Robert J. Barth, PhD
R. David Bauer, MD, FAAOS*
Enrique Bonugli
Charles N. Brooks, MD, FAAOS*
Leopoldo C. Cancio, MD, FACS, FCCM
Eugene Carragee, MD, FAAOS
Ian B. Fries, MD, FAAOS*
Kurt T. Hegmann, MD, FAAOS
Emily E. Heid, MD, FAAOS
Mark H. Hyman, MD, FAAOS
Judge David Langham, JD
David C. Ring, MD, FAAOS
Patrick F. Robinson, JD, MBA
Naomi N. Shields, MD, FAAOS
Richard E. Strain Jr., MD, FAAOS
Keith M. White, PhD, CPE, CEM
Marilyn L. Yodlowski, MD, PhD, FAAOS
* Faculty for both Workers’ Compensation and Half-Day IME/QME Courses
Registration Fees
Save $150 when you register for both courses!
To receive the $150 dual-course discount, please add both courses to your cart before checkout.
Member Rates
AAOS Member, Candidate Member, Associate Member, International Member
- Workers' Compensation: $1,225
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $499
- Attend Both and Save $150: $1,574
AAOS Emeritus Member
- Workers' Compensation: $1,175
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $499
- Attend Both and Save $150: $1,524
Resident, Post-Residency in Fellowship, U.S. Military
- Workers' Compensation: $1,025
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $499
- Attend Both and Save $150: $1,374
PA Member
- Workers' Compensation: $1,125
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $499
- Attend Both and Save $150: $1,474
Nonmember Rates
Nonmember, Other Physician
- Workers' Compensation: $1,525
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $699
- Attend Both and Save $150: $2,074
Nurse, Allied Health, PA Nonmember
- Workers' Compensation: $1,125
- IME/QME Half-Day Only: $599
- Attend Both and Save $150: $1,574