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Total Credits: 13 including 13 QME Credits (In-person)
CalChiro will be presenting a QME Certification Program which will prepare you to sit for the October 2024 Division of Workers’ Compensation examination.
DCs have been valued participants in the work comp QME system since the inception of the QME system more than 20 years ago. In fact, the outline for the training doctors must take was based on the old CCA Independent Disability Evaluator Course.
Until now, DCs had to take 44 hours of in-person classwork to qualify to sit for the exam, but through the efforts of CalChiro, Dr. Wayne Whalen and Dr. Moses Jacob, that requirement has changed to 13 hours face to face (in-person) and 12 hours of online coursework. So you only need to spend one weekend at a hotel!!!
Need QME recertification hours? Current QMEs can take this course and earn up to 12-hours!!!
DWC QME Process: The deadline for filing with the DWC to take the exam is August 21, 2024. No applications will be accepted after this postmarked date. The application and registration packet for the QME exam can be downloaded from the DWC website. Applicants may also contact the Medical Unit at 510-286-3700 to request an application via U.S. mail, email, or fax.
Under guidelines established by the Division of Workers’ Compensation for Continuing Education (CE), this program has been authorized for 25 total hours of CE. This course includes 9 hours of Certification in California Workers Compensation Evaluation, and 16 hours of disability evaluation report-writing, including 2 hours of anti-bias training and 2 hours of case law review. This combination of courses meets the requirements of the Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), in accordance with Labor Code section 139.2(d) (3) and Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, section 55, 11 (4) and 14.
CE CREDIT:
Under guidelines established by the Division of Workers’ Compensation for Continuing Education (CE), this program has been authorized for 25 total hours of CE. This course includes 9 hours of Certification in California Workers Compensation Evaluation, and 16 hours of disability evaluation report-writing, including 2 hours of anti-bias training and 2 hours of case law review. This combination of courses meets the requirements of the Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), in accordance with Labor Code section 139.2(d) (3) and Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, section 55, 11 (4) and 14.
Approved for 13 general (QME) In-person Learning CE hour(s) by the CA Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
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Judge Rassp practiced workers’ compensation and social security disability law from 1981 until his appointment as a Workers’ Compensation Judge on April 16, 2018. On December 16, 2019, he was appointed as the Presiding Judge at the WCAB Los Angeles District Office where he supervises 18 judges and 60 staff. He has been a certified specialist in workers’ compensation law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization since 1994. Judge Rassp is the author of “Lawyer’s Guide To The AMA Guides and California
Workers’ Compensation” with the 18 th edition in press, and Judge Rassp is the Editor-In-Chief of the Rassp & Herlick 22 chapter treatise, both published by LexisNexis. Judge Rassp has been an adjunct professor of law at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law since 2017. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Friends Research Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. ( www.friendsresearch.org ). Judge Rassp enjoys teaching Workers’ Compensation law to the workers’ compensation community and spends his spare time as the keyboardist playing rock and roll in his two bands, “CC&R” and “Retro.”
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