Texas Designated Doctor and Physician Training

American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians

Impairment Rating Training and Testing! Register for the Exam Today; Given at every Texas Course!

Designated Doctor and Physician Training Courses:
Westlake (Dallas/Ft. Worth Area) - July 18-19, 2008 (Friday-Saturday)
San Antonio - October 17-18, 2008 (Friday-Saturday)
Dallas - December 5-6, 2008 (Friday-Saturday)

New Distance-Learning Program(DVD) for Review Only - Order Today!

All Courses are CD-ROM
Bring LapTop to Follow PowerPoint Slides (Optional)

Print Registration Form Here!

AADEP and the “NEW”
Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (Division) Courses

Dear Texas Doctors and Healthcare Professionals:

The 2005 legislature made significant changes in the Texas workers’ compensation system with HB7. The TDI Division of Workers’ Compensation has new Rules that require the Designated Doctor to have completed new training in order to be and stay on the Designated Doctor lists. In addition, the Designated Doctor role was expanded in HB7 to include determining and resolving issues regarding MMI, the impairment rating, return to work, causality, and treatment.

Important facts concerning HB7.
The latest requirements, Rules’ changes, and forms in order to participate in the system.
Information on limitations of physicians participating in networks and being a DD.
Basic instruction in the use of the mandated ODG and MDA.
Discover how ODG and MDA can be used in your practice.

Quality education can save you time and money. AADEP Fellows were the Editors of the 5th Edition of the Guides. Many of our AADEP faculty in Texas helped to write both the Fourth and Fifth Editions of the Guides, helped to review and to edit the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG), and helped to review and to edit the Medical Disability Advisor (MDA). AADEP has pioneered and taught courses for years on how to evaluate injured workers for return to work, MMI, IR, causation, and Interpretation of Functional Ability (FCE), based on evidence-based medicine, ODG, and MDA.

You will receive 17.0 hours in category 1 credittm towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award including 1 CME hour of ETHICS, which can be used to meet the ethics requirement for your Texas Medical License. AADEP has designated this Designated Doctor and Physician Training continuing medical education activity for 17.0 hours in category 1 credittm towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Chiropractors and physical therapists may also receive relevant credit. The syllabus will be provided on CD-ROM. You will need a copy of AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition. We recommend post-it notes and multi-colored highlighters to set up the Guides as reference. If you choose to use a laptop, it must have sufficient power for a daylong session.

Save time and money and take one of these AADEP courses to learn the latest on Division rules and the proper use of the AMA Guides, ODG, and MDA.

Sincerely,
Marc T. Taylor, MD, FAADEP
Course Chair, San Antonio

The new “Division” in the Texas Department of Insurance does not endorse any other AADEP courses that might be offered at the same sites as the Designated Doctor and Physician Training course, and the Division does not endorse any exhibitor and/or equipment/materials being sold at this training event.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

This Designated Doctor and Physician Training Seminar is designed:

To provide doctors and other health care providers with methods of determining maximum medical improvement (MMI) and of calculating the appropriate impairment rating using the AMA Guides, Fourth Edition.
To follow the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (Division) approved core curriculum for doctors seeking full authorization to perform the new functions of the DD under HB7 and for health care providers performing ROM, sensory, and motor testing for those doctors.
To fulfill the MMI and impairment rating requirements per the new Rules of the Division.
To introduce the use of ODG and MDA.
To introduce the issues involved in determining causality.

In addition, after the completion of the course the course participants will:

Obtain written information concerning the role and responsibility of a designated doctor, RME doctor, and treating doctor in the impairment rating process as it pertains to Texas law and the use of the AMA Guides.
Receive clinical examples of determining MMI and an impairment rating for many body systems, as defined in the AMA Guides.
Receive clinical examples and instruction in the use of ODG and MDA and in methods for determining causality.
Obtain instruction in the correct use of equipment and procedure for determining and documenting results of range of motion, sensory, and strength testing.
Meet the requirements for the didactic training component to complete the designated doctor application.
Meet met the course requirement needed to take the new written Division examination.

Participants will learn through formal didactic lectures, panel discussions, question and answer periods, interactive case presentation workshops, and a syllabus on CD-ROM. Please bring your copy of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition as well as post-it notes and multi-colored highlighters.

The American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians (AADEP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AADEP designates this educational activity for a maximum of (or for up to) 17.0 hours in category 1 credit(tm) towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each participant should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

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