2016 physician's guide

 Welcome to Session 1 of this Program.  We being the Program with "The  QME's Role in the Disability Evaluation Process.  In this session, learn  why you are needed as a medical evaluator, and how and why your name  gets chosen as the evaluator on the case.   

In this brief session we review the Administrative Director's Disability  Evaluation Guidelines as described in CCR 43-46 and, we begin our  Introduction to 1) the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent  Impairment - 5th Edition and 2) the QME Regulations CCR 1 - 159.  These  are important sections of the law for all QMEs to be familiar with, and  to review regularly. 

 Sometimes we (QMEs) can get lulled into thinking that we write our reports for ourselves but  that is not true.  QME reports are used by many other participants in the case and claim.  These other participants include 1) the injured worker, 2) the claims administrator, 3) the Applicant Attorney, 4) the Defense  Attorney, 5) the Disability Evaluation Unit, and 6) Work Comp Judges.   Thus, our reports must be written for, and sensitive to the needs of,  these third parties.  In this session, we explore the "third party perspective" and how our reports can best meet the needs of these other participants. 

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