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New disability evaluation course for physiatrists
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ORGANIZATION NEWSmAAPM&R HCFA Leader to Keynote Annual Assembly Richard W. Besdine, MD, Director of the Health Standards and Quality Bureau of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), will be the keynote speaker at the opening Plenary Session of the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of PM&R on October 10. The keynote address is sponsored by the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in memory of Howard A. Rusk, MD. Dr. Besdine is responsible for HCFA's efforts to assure high quality health care under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Clinical Laboratories Improvement Amendment (CLIA) programs. This involves managing the Peer Review Organization Program, the Survey and Certification Program, including CLIA, and the End-Stage Renal Disease Networks. While on sabbatical during the 1995-1996 academic year, Dr. Besdine joined the HCFA staff as Special Medical Advisor to the Administrator working on multiple projects concerning quality standards of care for Medicare beneficiaries. He was appointed to his current position on April 1, 1996. Dr. Besdine also holds several positions at the University of Connecticut (UConn) including professor of medicine, director of the Travelers Center on Aging, and Travelers Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the UConn Health Center's School of Medicine. He is also chief of the division of geriatrics in the Department of Medicine, director of the School of Medicine's Geriatrics Fellowship Program and Director of UConn's Geriatric Education Center. Devoted to the development and advancement of academic geriatrics for 25 years, Dr. Besdine has trained more than 70 physicians for careers in geriatrics. He has developed comprehensive mandatory geriatrics experiences for all internal medicine and family medicine residents at UConn, and extensive medical and dental student education and training. As director of the Endowed Travelers Research Institute on Health Promotion and Aging, he oversees studies of interventions to prolong vitality in older persons. He was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty for 15 years, during which time he helped build Harvard's Division on Aging and developed one of the first academic geriatrics fellowship training programs. He was also founding director of the Harvard Geriatric Education Center. Arch Phys Med Rehabil Vol 77, September 1996
He has served on the President's Commission on Mental Health, as a consultant on several aging task forces, and on numerous scientific review panels and study sections for the federal government and private foundations. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Federation for Aging Research and for the American Geriatrics Society, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alliance for Aging Research. An author of more than 90 publications, most in geriatrics and gerontology, Dr. Besdine is co-editor of Geriatric Medicine and a monograph, Medical Care of the Nursing Home Resident. Dr. Besdine is a cum laude graduate of Haverford College and of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and immunology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Besdine trained in geriatrics at the University of Glasgow in 1972 with Sir Ferguson Anderson. He is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and infectious disease. For additional information about the 1996 AAPM&R Annual Assembly, consult your Preliminary Program or contact the Academy national office at e-mail: aapmrl @ aol.com; phone: (312) 464-9700; fax: (312) 464-0227.
"Powerful" Program Planned for 1996 Annual Assembly The 58th Annual Assembly and Technical Exhibition of the American Academy of PM&R will be held October 10-13, 1996 at the Hilton Towers and Hotel, Chicago. " I f you are looking for a powerful program that commands your attention, you should make plans to be in Chicago," remarked Gary S. Clark, MD, Program Planning Subcommittee Chair. "Internationally respected speakers, repeats of the popular workshops, and a redesigned registration process will provide attendees with the maximum amount of continuing medical education possible." Highlights of new and redesigned programs include: • A new condensed program: Three and one-half days, packed with continuing medical education providing the most intense program with minimal time away from the office. • Musculoskeletal and practice management courses offered throughout the program. Eight 2-day tracks present the scope of physiatric practice.
The doors are open for all registered attendees for courses, morning and evening seminars, special interest group forums, and even focused discussion sessions. Repeated workshops and a new registration system assuring fairness to all. The PASSOR educational program is now part of the Academy musculoskeletal program and provided to attendees at no extra cost. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine's Annual Meeting immediately follows the Academy meeting with two sessions on Sunday morning open to attendees of both meetings and reciprocal member rates for both meetings. A A P M & R Preconference Course: "Disability Evaluation: A A P M & R Certificate Program." A 15-hour, comprehensive CME program on the medicolegal aspects of disability evaluation. Michigan State Postconference Course: "Principles of Manual Medicine in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation." It's back! Michigan State again invites attendees to register for this popular postconference educational event, which was last offered at the 1994 Annual Assembly.
New Disability Evaluation Course for Physiatrists Physiatrists shouldn't miss Disability Evaluation: The AAPM&R Certificate Program. The 2-day Academy course will provide practical training in performing disability evaluations. The course will be offered October 8-9 immediately preceding the 1996 AAPM&R Annual Assembly in Chicago. The course evolved from the Academy's strategic plan objectives to create educational programs to assist members in reengineering their practices despite the advent of managed care. "This course has been carefully developed to build on the PM&R specialist's experience," stated Murray E. Brandstater, MD, chair of the Strategic Management Committee on Education and Research. The course is led by Program Director Richard T. Katz, MD, with support by an expert faculty. "Pbysiatrists are particularly well-suited for this practice opportunity as their mind set is about function and helping patients live quality lives despite chronic impairments," stated Dr. Katz. "This course is designed with the practicing physiatrist in mind."
ORGANIZATION NEWS--AAPM&R
The American Medical Association's Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition will be the official guidebook for the course and will be available for purchase on-site. Additionally, attendees will receive a grounding in the philosophy, ethics, and knowledge base of every aspect of disability evaluation. In small group discussions, participants
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will explore several start-to-finish case studies and learn how to use disability rating systems codes accurately and how to identify work-related injuries. Attendees will also receive a certificate attesting that they have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to deal with workers' compensation programs from injury diagnosis to worksite evaluation to legal and ethical considerations.
Other courses are offered by other organizations on disability evaluation, but they are not designed specifically for physiatrists. Registration forms for Disability Evaluation: The AAPM&R Certificate Program are in the 1996 Annual Assembly Preliminary Program. For more information, contact the Academy national office at e-mail: [email protected]; phone: (312) 464-9700; fax: (312) 464-0227.
PM&R BOARD EXAMINATION DATES
Dates for the 1997 examinations of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are: Part I (written), May 16, 1997; Part II (oral), May 17 and 18, 1997; in Rochester, MN. Option for Part I (written) in Philadelphia or Dallas DEADLINE for receiving completed applications (without penalty) is November 15, 1996. Penalty of $200 for late applications (postmarked November 16 to December 15, 1996). No applications, complete or incomplete, will be accepted after December 15, 1996. For information and applications, write to: American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Norwest Center, Suite 674, 21 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55902-3009. Phone (507) 282-1776; Fax (507) 282-9242. Requests for applications will not be accepted by telephone. Each candidate must write for his/her own information and application, giving name of residency training program.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil Vol 77, September 1996
ORGANIZATION NEWSmAAPM&R HCFA Leader to Keynote Annual Assembly Richard W. Besdine, MD, Director of the Health Standards and Quality Bureau of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), will be the keynote speaker at the opening Plenary Session of the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of PM&R on October 10. The keynote address is sponsored by the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in memory of Howard A. Rusk, MD. Dr. Besdine is responsible for HCFA's efforts to assure high quality health care under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Clinical Laboratories Improvement Amendment (CLIA) programs. This involves managing the Peer Review Organization Program, the Survey and Certification Program, including CLIA, and the End-Stage Renal Disease Networks. While on sabbatical during the 1995-1996 academic year, Dr. Besdine joined the HCFA staff as Special Medical Advisor to the Administrator working on multiple projects concerning quality standards of care for Medicare beneficiaries. He was appointed to his current position on April 1, 1996. Dr. Besdine also holds several positions at the University of Connecticut (UConn) including professor of medicine, director of the Travelers Center on Aging, and Travelers Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the UConn Health Center's School of Medicine. He is also chief of the division of geriatrics in the Department of Medicine, director of the School of Medicine's Geriatrics Fellowship Program and Director of UConn's Geriatric Education Center. Devoted to the development and advancement of academic geriatrics for 25 years, Dr. Besdine has trained more than 70 physicians for careers in geriatrics. He has developed comprehensive mandatory geriatrics experiences for all internal medicine and family medicine residents at UConn, and extensive medical and dental student education and training. As director of the Endowed Travelers Research Institute on Health Promotion and Aging, he oversees studies of interventions to prolong vitality in older persons. He was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty for 15 years, during which time he helped build Harvard's Division on Aging and developed one of the first academic geriatrics fellowship training programs. He was also founding director of the Harvard Geriatric Education Center. Arch Phys Med Rehabil Vol 77, September 1996
He has served on the President's Commission on Mental Health, as a consultant on several aging task forces, and on numerous scientific review panels and study sections for the federal government and private foundations. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Federation for Aging Research and for the American Geriatrics Society, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alliance for Aging Research. An author of more than 90 publications, most in geriatrics and gerontology, Dr. Besdine is co-editor of Geriatric Medicine and a monograph, Medical Care of the Nursing Home Resident. Dr. Besdine is a cum laude graduate of Haverford College and of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and immunology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Besdine trained in geriatrics at the University of Glasgow in 1972 with Sir Ferguson Anderson. He is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and infectious disease. For additional information about the 1996 AAPM&R Annual Assembly, consult your Preliminary Program or contact the Academy national office at e-mail: aapmrl @ aol.com; phone: (312) 464-9700; fax: (312) 464-0227.
"Powerful" Program Planned for 1996 Annual Assembly The 58th Annual Assembly and Technical Exhibition of the American Academy of PM&R will be held October 10-13, 1996 at the Hilton Towers and Hotel, Chicago. " I f you are looking for a powerful program that commands your attention, you should make plans to be in Chicago," remarked Gary S. Clark, MD, Program Planning Subcommittee Chair. "Internationally respected speakers, repeats of the popular workshops, and a redesigned registration process will provide attendees with the maximum amount of continuing medical education possible." Highlights of new and redesigned programs include: • A new condensed program: Three and one-half days, packed with continuing medical education providing the most intense program with minimal time away from the office. • Musculoskeletal and practice management courses offered throughout the program. Eight 2-day tracks present the scope of physiatric practice.
The doors are open for all registered attendees for courses, morning and evening seminars, special interest group forums, and even focused discussion sessions. Repeated workshops and a new registration system assuring fairness to all. The PASSOR educational program is now part of the Academy musculoskeletal program and provided to attendees at no extra cost. The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine's Annual Meeting immediately follows the Academy meeting with two sessions on Sunday morning open to attendees of both meetings and reciprocal member rates for both meetings. A A P M & R Preconference Course: "Disability Evaluation: A A P M & R Certificate Program." A 15-hour, comprehensive CME program on the medicolegal aspects of disability evaluation. Michigan State Postconference Course: "Principles of Manual Medicine in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation." It's back! Michigan State again invites attendees to register for this popular postconference educational event, which was last offered at the 1994 Annual Assembly.
New Disability Evaluation Course for Physiatrists Physiatrists shouldn't miss Disability Evaluation: The AAPM&R Certificate Program. The 2-day Academy course will provide practical training in performing disability evaluations. The course will be offered October 8-9 immediately preceding the 1996 AAPM&R Annual Assembly in Chicago. The course evolved from the Academy's strategic plan objectives to create educational programs to assist members in reengineering their practices despite the advent of managed care. "This course has been carefully developed to build on the PM&R specialist's experience," stated Murray E. Brandstater, MD, chair of the Strategic Management Committee on Education and Research. The course is led by Program Director Richard T. Katz, MD, with support by an expert faculty. "Pbysiatrists are particularly well-suited for this practice opportunity as their mind set is about function and helping patients live quality lives despite chronic impairments," stated Dr. Katz. "This course is designed with the practicing physiatrist in mind."
ORGANIZATION NEWS--AAPM&R
The American Medical Association's Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fourth Edition will be the official guidebook for the course and will be available for purchase on-site. Additionally, attendees will receive a grounding in the philosophy, ethics, and knowledge base of every aspect of disability evaluation. In small group discussions, participants
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will explore several start-to-finish case studies and learn how to use disability rating systems codes accurately and how to identify work-related injuries. Attendees will also receive a certificate attesting that they have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to deal with workers' compensation programs from injury diagnosis to worksite evaluation to legal and ethical considerations.
Other courses are offered by other organizations on disability evaluation, but they are not designed specifically for physiatrists. Registration forms for Disability Evaluation: The AAPM&R Certificate Program are in the 1996 Annual Assembly Preliminary Program. For more information, contact the Academy national office at e-mail: [email protected]; phone: (312) 464-9700; fax: (312) 464-0227.
PM&R BOARD EXAMINATION DATES
Dates for the 1997 examinations of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are: Part I (written), May 16, 1997; Part II (oral), May 17 and 18, 1997; in Rochester, MN. Option for Part I (written) in Philadelphia or Dallas DEADLINE for receiving completed applications (without penalty) is November 15, 1996. Penalty of $200 for late applications (postmarked November 16 to December 15, 1996). No applications, complete or incomplete, will be accepted after December 15, 1996. For information and applications, write to: American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Norwest Center, Suite 674, 21 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55902-3009. Phone (507) 282-1776; Fax (507) 282-9242. Requests for applications will not be accepted by telephone. Each candidate must write for his/her own information and application, giving name of residency training program.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil Vol 77, September 1996