0820 Spine (Stream 1) and Spinal Impairment Guides Modification Document (Stream 1) - 20 August 2025

IMPORTANT NOTE: This Stream 1 module requires you to also complete Core (Stream 1) to become an approved assessor. 

Delivery: Webinar

This is a Stream 1 module and it’s designed for doctors that have never successfully completed the module and do not hold the relevant accreditations. Accreditation requires you to attend the session as well as successfully completing the module assessment.

Successful completion of the module will lead to awarding of two accreditations:

1. Spine
2. Spinal Impairment Guides Modification Document

Module information

This module covers criteria for assessing spine using both the methodology from Chapter 3 of the Guides, and also some modification to those criteria, which applies in some cases, and is contained in an additional prescribed methodology called the Spinal Impairment Guides Modification Document.

The module covers:

• The key concepts that apply to assessment of Spinal Impairment.
• The way in which some terms are given specific meaning within the Guides is different that from clinical practice.
• A logical path for consideration of Spinal Impairment, whether using the Guides, or with use of the Spinal Impairment Guides Modification Document.
• 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 bring along their AMA4 Guide when they attend the training program.