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This is the solution you have been looking for to master and use the Sixth Edition of the AMA
Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. This unique membership site provides you
24/7 access to extensive and essential resources that will improve the quality and efficiency of
performing and reviewing Sixth Edition impairment evaluations. The site is designed for all professionals
involved in the use of the Sixth Edition, including physicians, attorneys, claims professionals and fact
finders. You will gain access to:
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- Training
- Presentations by Christopher R. Brigham, MD, Senior Contributing Editor to the Sixth Edition – view at your convenience – 9 modules, over 6 hours of content in Flash format - fast loading and easy to navigate.
- Seminar Syllabus
- Articles - searchable by Chapter and topic
- Case Exercises with Solutions – searchable by Chapter
- Questions and Answers – searchable by Chapter and topic
- Calculators
- Functional Inventories (with online scoring and reporting), including Pain Disability Questionnaire (PDQ), QuickDASH, and Lower Limb Outcome – simplifies use and saves valuable time.
- Net Adjustment – instant calculation of adjustments
- Combined Values
- Unit and Regional Conversions
- Forms
- Functional Inventory Forms
- History Form
- Physical Examination Form
- Resources
- Rating Guidance Tool which provides information on the applicable section(s) and criteria, and suggestions on the rating process to over 50 of the most commonly rated conditions.
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All of these resources are available to you 24/7 for only $487 a year, less than cost of a single day of live training – and you have access all year.
This provides you with a superb return on investment by increasing your abilities and saving time.
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Online training – efficient and effective. Online training is a very efficient
way to learn the Guides. Use this as a primary learning method or to complement other seminars.
No travel time, no travel costs, no lost productivity, and no hassle. In the past, to learn how to use
the Guides you would need to travel to seminars - and then weeks later you encounter a
rating issue and do not clearly recall what to do. Or you would need to struggle on your own
to interpret the Guides. The training is equivalent to days of participation in seminars, yet the fee is not. Nor is there
lost productivity (compromising billable hours) or any travel costs. You do not have to give up
valued work days, treasured weekends or vacation time to receive training.
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The presentations focus on the musculoskeletal injuries of the spine, upper extremities and lower extremities
which represent the vast majority of the ratable conditions. Online case exercises with solutions will increase your skills and your confidence.
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You will learn from Christopher R. Brigham, MD, Senior Contributing Editor of
the Sixth Edition, Editor of the Guides Casebook and Guides Newsletter,
and someone highly regarded for his knowledge of impairment evaluation and ability to
convey this knowledge to others.
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As a result of these learning resources you will be able to:
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Discuss the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (
ICF) and its role in impairment evaluation.
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Explain the reasons for revision of the prior approaches to impairment assessment.
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Describe how to determine Diagnosis-Based Impairments, and make adjustments
on the basis of the results of Functional History, Physical Examination, and Clinical Studies.
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Demonstrate the ability to score Functional Inventories (including the QuickDASH,
Lower Limb Outcome Scale, and Pain Disability Questionnaire).
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Explain why methods used in previous editions (such as spinal range of motion
assessment and strength determination) are no longer determinates.
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Demonstrate the ability to rate most commonly rated disorders, including spinal pain,
upper limb disorders (hand, wrist, elbow, shoulders and entrapments), lower limb disorders
(foot / ankle, knee and hip), nervous system disorders, and pain.
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You made “digesting” this material over my lunch hour far more tolerable than expected.
I seriously doubt most busy physicians could find
the motivation to get through the enormous volumes of new content without your
assistance.
This resource enables me to make use of time which would otherwise be wasted.
I can listen to the live event over lunch, and review the more complex segments
while commuting, exercising, or working around the house.
As an Occupational Medicine physician, my most limited resource is time, and
my most valuable asset is knowledge. I would like to thank you and your staff
for consistently providing high quality CME programs. Once again, you have accomplished
your goal of exceeding my expectations!
Todd E. Garner, DO, CIME, Mattoon, Illinois
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Guidance. You also gain access to articles on topics of importance to you and online
rating guidance for the most
commonly encountered diagnoses.
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To ease the process of performing and reviewing impairment ratings, you are provided with
access to the functional inventories used in the Guides, including the Pain
Disability Questionnaire (PDQ), QuickDASH, and AAOS Lower Limb Outcome Scale – with
online scoring and printing! This feature alone, and the associated savings of time,
provides an excellent return on your nominal monthly investment. You also have access to online
calculators for net adjustment, combined values and conversions.
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I am really happy I subscribed....its excellent and a
real cost saver.....at $700 a year it provides me with
more info, training and assistance than a 3-4 day course
elsewhere at twice or three times the cost.
Ronald Fadel, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Louisville, Kentucky
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To greatly improve the quality and efficiencies of evaluations you will also gain access to a variety of forms
that are available only to current subscribers of 6thEdition.com. Examinee forms include consent, history, inventories
and satisfaction survey. The Impairment Evaluation Report Form is 21 pages in length and includes section on Introduction,
Physical Examination of all musculoskeletal regions, Diagnostic Studies, Functional Inventories, Conclusions,
Impairment Rating Worksheets, and Disclosures. We also provide you with extensive Internet links to resources that
you will find very valuable.
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I would like to commend you on the creation of your
website "6thEdition.com”. This is an invaluable resource
tool for writing my Independent Medical Evaluations and
Medical Impairment Reports requiring the Sixth Edition
of the American Medical Association Guides to the
Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. Presently, I have a
large clinical practice at the Physical Medicine Pain
Center located in Orlando Florida, treating patients
involved in motor vehicle crashes with residual
impairments after maximal medical improvement. The State
of Florida requires the most recent edition of the AMA
Guides for calculation of causally related impairment as
a result of these personal injuries.
The 6thEdition.com allows me to input my clinical data
from diagnosis, history, physical examination, and
clinical studies to arrive at a whole person permanent
impairment rating. This documentation supports my
narrative report conclusions and provides the necessary
references from the various tables of the Guides 6th
edition. The
6thEdition.com provides interactive examinee and
physical examination forms, in addition to the necessary
functional inventories for the upper and lower
extremities, including the spine. These tools are
extremely useful in the calculation of overall
functional test scores and the net adjustment formula in
the final impairment rating.
The implementation of your 6thEdition.com website is
most cost effective and time consuming. I would highly
recommend the "6thEdition" to any Physician requiring
the use of the AMA Guides for the calculation of whole
person permanent impairment rating.Francis W.
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