0725 Core Update (Stream 2) - 25 July 2024

Delivery: Webinar

This is a Stream 2 module and it is designed for doctors that have already successfully completed the Stream 1 version of the module and hold that accreditation. Stream 2 modules do not have any assessment requirements, they will help you improve your proficiency by updating your skills in applying the AMA4 Guides and/or other prescribed assessment methods.

Successful completion of the Stream 2 module will lead to awarding of one update to accreditation:

1. Core update

If you have not already successfully completed the Stream 1 module and you want to gain that accreditation, please go back to the homepage and enroll in Core (Stream 1).

Module information

This module covers:

• The overarching principles from Chapters 1, 2 and the Glossary of the Guides that apply to all assessments performed using the Guides.
• The ways in which assessments using the Guides in used for the three Victorian Compensation Jurisdictions:
  • WorkSafe Victoria
  • Transport Accident Commission
  • The Wrongs Act
• The ways in which the Guides are modified by legislation. This includes removal of some parts of the Guides, and replacement of some parts with alternative prescribed methodologies.
• The ways in which binding Court Decisions have clarified how parts of the Guides are to be interpreted.
• The way in which some common medical terms are given different meanings in the Guides.
• The way in which impairment scores for different body parts are to be assembled to derive an overall score of impairment of a whole person.
• Apportionment of Impairment: The approach required to disentangle what impairment may or may not be related to a compensable event.

*Course cost includes GST.

*Participants need to have their own copy of the  AMA4 Guides with them when they attend the training program.