Centre for Medicolegal Practice
Comprehensive AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th Ed. (Self Learning)
It is often misconstrued that The Guides are difficult to apply, let alone to understand. This is not true. The consistent use of a tool renders the tool easier to use. This is true for the AMA Guides. Over the years the AMA Guides have gone through various revolutionary changes. There are current efforts to make the AMA Guides even simpler and accessible to the end user. The course is targeted at Private HCPs, Claims Assessors, Allied Health Professionals , Attorneys, and Life Underwriters. This is an Online Recorded Offering.
Sustainable Medicolegal Practice Setup
Self-Learning Activity
Setting up a Medico-Legal Practice is an intensive exercise. Through our Medicolegal Course, we take the student from basic to advanced level of preparedness for medicolegal practice.
We encompass the design for a SWOT Analysis of your Medicolegal Practice, to the execution of marketing strategies to be employed. We couple the business aspects with the practical Medicolegal Report Writing for the medicolegal practitioner.
Medicolegal Cases Discussions and Review
The Centre has collected cases that we use to discuss the real live situations faced by clinicians in the industry. This ensures that the cases being discussed are not just textbook classics, but rather actual cases that have seen the courtrooms and have been adjudicated on.
Our Assessment Centre offers hands on clinical skills training that caters from as few as 5 trainees to 20 trainees. Case Discussions are based on the either Subscription per month orRegistration per case discussion.
Our Assessment Centre offers hands on clinical skills training that caters from as few as 5 trainees to 20 trainees. Case Discussions are based on the either Subscription per month orRegistration per case discussion.
Health Risk Management, PILIR, Incapacity and More
The Provident Funds, Government and other self funded industries provide for the management of the incapacitated employees. The proper understanding and operationalization of the products in this space is critical. Gone are the days where a doctor just issued long sick leave that was never questioned.
This program is provided under the banner of capacitating HCPs for Health Risk Management Services
This program is provided under the banner of capacitating HCPs for Health Risk Management Services
Writing Comprehensive Medicolegal Reports
The Provident Funds, Government and other self funded industries provide for the management of the incapacitated employees. The proper understanding and operationalization of the products in this space is critical. Gone are the days where a doctor just issued long sick leave that was never questioned.
This program is provided under the banner of capacitating HCPs for Health Risk Management Services
This program is provided under the banner of capacitating HCPs for Health Risk Management Services
Hybrid AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th Ed.
It is often misconstrued that The Guides are difficult to apply, let alone to understand. This is not true. The consistent use of a tool renders the tool easier to use. This is true for the AMA Guides. Over the years the AMA Guides have gone through various revolutionary changes. There are current efforts to make the AMA Guides even simpler and accessible to the end user. The course is targeted at Private HCPs, Claims Assessors, Allied Health Professionals , Attorneys, and Life Underwriters.
This course is till 2024 Dec 31
This course is till 2024 Dec 31
AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
(Hybrid Attendance)
The program runs over 5 days, for the general overall group, with specialists only attending their relevant speciality associated topics. Access to the online exam is after the content has been completed and is for 3 weeks after attendance. We deploy the Online Interactive Live Zoom Sessions, these being recorded for later access. Physical attendance is at our training centre as outlined below.
Certificates and CPD Points are earned for attendance and completion. For the 2025 year, this course will be run over 6 live sessions with contineous access to trainees over the 12 month calendar year.
Medicolegal Reports and Compensation Claims Management: Fact, Value and Policy
Writing Reports, Assessing A Report, and Independent Opinion Formulation: Fact, Value and Policy in Medicolegal Reports and Claims Management
As a Medicolegal Practitioner, writing reports must be aimed at a particular outcome.
On the other hand, the Claims Assessor has to formulate an independent opinion and make a decision without being left with doubt of the correctness of such a decision.
Certificates and CPD Points are earned for attendance and completion. This course is a part of the Claims Assessor Training Course.
AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment
(Current Updates)
In 2023, the AMA Guides Nervous System Chapter was updated. this folloowed the 2022 Mental and Behavioural Chapter updates.
2024 saw the major overhaul of the entire musculo-skeletal system, a new methodology that allows for ease of reference and diagnosis based impairment being entrenched as the primary method of assessment.
This modu;e is geared towards those that have been trained in the use of the AMA Guides, and is for the update of the methods as previously taught.
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Dr Caswell Nkuna
A Medical Graduate from Wits University, Occupational Medical Practitioner with Certificates in Impairment Evaluations, Ionizing Radiation in the Workplace For Occupational Medical Practitioners, Health Sector Mediation and Management Studies.
Extensive experience in General Medical Practice, Health Services (including Hospitals) Management, Courses Assessments and Moderation, AMA Guides 6th Ed. Facilitation and Training. He is the current AMA Guides Impairment Evaluations Trainer/Facilitator and has trained more than 500 Impairment Assessors, including Medical Specialists, Allied Health and General Practitioners.
A member of the RAF Medical Experts as an Expert Impairment Rater. He is currently a member of the Compensation Fund Tribunal and member of the Committee on Schedule 3 review for COIDA. He is Current Medico-Legal Advisor to GENOA and runs Incapacity Programs for Industries in the Mining and Open Labour Markets. He is the Medical Expert on the General Damages Benefit Standardization project for the RAF.
He is the medical contributor to the Medicolegal Report Writer One X-i.
Extensive experience in General Medical Practice, Health Services (including Hospitals) Management, Courses Assessments and Moderation, AMA Guides 6th Ed. Facilitation and Training. He is the current AMA Guides Impairment Evaluations Trainer/Facilitator and has trained more than 500 Impairment Assessors, including Medical Specialists, Allied Health and General Practitioners.
A member of the RAF Medical Experts as an Expert Impairment Rater. He is currently a member of the Compensation Fund Tribunal and member of the Committee on Schedule 3 review for COIDA. He is Current Medico-Legal Advisor to GENOA and runs Incapacity Programs for Industries in the Mining and Open Labour Markets. He is the Medical Expert on the General Damages Benefit Standardization project for the RAF.
He is the medical contributor to the Medicolegal Report Writer One X-i.