Disability Duration Course for Doctors Treating Workers Comp Injuries

There is a new type of workers compensation cost containment course. Reed Group, a sponsor on LowerWC.com and LowerWC.com Workers Comp Newsletter, and Webility Corporation have a new Online Training Course for Physicians which is a Primer on Disability Prevention and Management.

Reed Group and Webility Corporation presents a new e-learning course — Mastering MDGuidelines: Using Disability Duration Guidelines for Clinical Patient Care, saying for most working adults, getting sidelined by illness or injury can have devastating consequences for their family and career as well as for their financial, physical, and emotional well-being. Yet very few physicians receive formal education or training in how to prevent and minimize that impact on patients’ major life functions, especially their jobs.

Co-developed by disability experts Jon Seymour, MD, and Jennifer Christian, MD, the brief e-course efficiently delivers a primer in disability prevention and management to treating clinicians of all specialties.

Patients, employers, insurance carriers, case management firms, and claims administration companies all complain of physicians’ lack of awareness and willingness to play the communications role prescribed for them in disability cases, Jon Seymour, MD, Reed Group President, Guidelines, said.

“This e-course will help address that issue by building clinician awareness and ability to use the MDGuidelines resource in the manner in which it always has been intended – as the source of objective information that, when shared, creates common ground and allows all parties to achieve common goals and better outcomes in the return-to-work process,” Dr. Seymour added.

According to Jennifer Christian, MD, Webility Corporation President,, the e-course was designed like a Cliff Notes introduction to disability prevention and management for busy doctors, containing 30 to 45 minutes of clinician-friendly instruction on how to give sound practical advice to working-age patients about what they should and shouldn’t do, both at home and at work while recovering from injury and illness.

The course is offered on-line and ears 0.75 hours of Category I CME credit. Group purchase may also be arranged.

Reed Group®, headquartered in Colorado, is the world’s most trusted source of return-to-work information, helping companies improve employee absence outcomes. Contact 866.889.4449 or email jnelson@reedgroup.com; at www.reedgroup.com.

MDGuidelines is the disability industry’s leading return-to-work reference toolset. Available as a web-based resource or integrated with the user’s IT system, MDGuidelines offers real-world and idealized return-to-work durations with advanced predictive modeling. Visit www.mdguidelines.com for course information.

Webility Corporation’s mission is to bridge the communications gap separating medical offices from employers and benefit administrators, enabling these parties to more effectively play their roles in minimizing the disruptive impact of injury or illness on an employee’s income and vocation. More info at www.webility.md to take the e-course on line.