The next QME Competency Examination is scheduled for 10/14/23 – 10/21/23. This course is for you if you want to pass the Exam. This course will be offered in two 6 hours live sessions – on Saturday September 30, 2023, and Saturday October 7, 2023. Sign up for one, or both sessions.
This course includes review of all of the Labor Codes, and Code of Regulation relevant to QME work, and that the DWC tests on. The Test Prep Course is a live presentation and includes hand outs of all references discussed in the Session. Also included are two brief interviews – the first with a doctor who was unable to pass the QME Competency Exam, and the second with a doctor who did. Each shares with us their perspective of what they did right, wrong, and what they could have done better.
Topics of the QME Test Prep Course include:
1. 2016 Physician’s Guide – The Relevant Sections
2. AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment – 5th Edition
3. California Permanent Disability Rating Schedule
4. QME Regulations – CCR 1-100
a. CCR 9793-9795 Medical Legal Fee Schedule
5. Relevant Case Law:
a. Almarez Guzman
b. Kite vs. Milpitas
c. Escobedo vs. Marshall’s
d. Kopping vs. WCAB
6. Key Concepts:
a. The QME Panel Process – LC 4060, 4061, and 4062
b. The Face to Face Evaluation – Disclosures and Ethics – CCR 40 & 41
c. The Review of Records
d. Causation – Specific vs. Cumulative Trauma Injuries
e. AOE/COE – Arising out of Employment/Occurring in the Course of Employment
f.Permanent & Stationary/Maximum Medical Improvement
g. Apportionment – LC 4663 and 4664
h. Timelines in the medical legal evaluation
The course is taught by 28 year QME Perry J. Carpenter DC. Dr. Carpenter has been a Continuing Education Provider for the DWC since 2011 and has authored hundreds of hours of Continuing Education programs for Qualified Medical Evaluators of all Specialties.