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Re-certification to the 6th Edition-AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment12 CEU's: CT, NY,RI,MA,NH, VT
If you are currently certified in the 5th Edition of the GUIDES, this program is essential to maintain your credentials as an impairment specialist. Current status in the “Latest Edition” is required in the following States: AK, HI, KY, LA, MS, MT, NH, NM, ND, OH, OK, PA, RI, TN, VT, WY and will be required for Federal and Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act cases.
The sixth edition utilizes an analytical framework based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), that results in five impairment classes which permit the rating of the patient from no impairment to most severe. For each organ system, there is a diagnosis-based grid that is similar in most of the chapters in the 6th edition. The grid arranges commonly used ICD-9 diagnoses within the five classes of impairment severity, and modifications raising or lowering the impairment level within the specific class are available.
Functionally based histories, physical findings and broadly accepted objective clinical test results are integrated where applicable to help physicians determine the grade within the impairment class. The result is a decision that is both transparent and reproducible. Dr Steven G. Yeomans Dr Steven G. Yeomans began his practice in 1979 by joining his father as a third generation chiropractor in Ripon, WI. He completed a 5-year residency orthopedic program and became board certified in 1985. He accepted his first post-graduate teaching position with the National College of Chiropractic in 1989 and since, has acquired chiropractic post-graduate teaching positions with 6 other colleges/universities. Since 1984, Dr. Yeomans has lectured abroad and throughout the U.S. and Canada in topics including Impairment and disability rating, Industrial consulting, carpal tunnel syndrome and cumulative trauma disorders, rehabilitation, whiplash, documentation, physical therapy, outcomes assessment and orthopedics. In the year 2000, the textbook, The Clinical Application of Outcomes Assessment, was released by Appleton & Lange. He maintains a full time private practice in Ripon, WI with a partner and continues to actively write and lecture.
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