22nd Annual AAOS Workers’ Compensation and Musculoskeletal Injuries + Half-Day Whiplash Injury Course

Successfully integrate the clinical and non-clinical aspects of workers’ compensation

Turn to this unique and practical course to develop and improve your handling of the medical and non-medical components of workers’ compensation cases. Explore the current legal, administrative, ethical, and insurance issues in your cases and how to address them.

New topics and faculty offer current perspectives on causation, diagnosis, and treatment options that can improve your outcomes for occupational injuries and illnesses. Learn effective strategies for utilization review, causation analysis, report writing, medical liability, depositions, and communications skills with patients.

“I have come to the course for many years and each time I improve the evaluation of not only my workers’ compensation patients, but all other patients I see on a daily basis." - Previous Course Attendee

NEW Half-Day Course!

AAOS Whiplash Injury and Other Reported Injuries: The Science of Accident Reconstruction and Impact/Vehicular Biomechanics

November 5, 2020
Engaging lectures and lively panel discussions cover topics on Whiplash Associated Disorders (WADs) including assessing impact severity, occupant kinematics, injury analysis, report writing and more. Highlights include:

Dr. Eugene J. Carragee will review his research findings on minor trauma (motor vehicle collision) as an independent predictor of pain, the validity of self-reported neck pain, and the effect of repetitive high exposure impact to the neck.
Presentations by biomechanical engineers and orthopaedic physicians on current best practices for establishing a diagnosis, determining treatment, developing a causation determination and how to complete a written report.

SAVE $150 when you register for both courses!

Course Director

J. Mark Melhorn, MD, FAAOS

Enjoy these articles featured in AAOS Now, written by Course Director J. Mark Melhorn, MD:

Determining Return to Activity Isn't Easy, but There is Help (July 2019)
How Causation Is Determined in Workers’ Compensation Cases Continues to Evolve (July 2018)
Meeting the Unmet Need: Independent Medical Examinations (July 2017)
Why Workers' Comp Matters (July 2016)

Registration Fees

Save $150 when you register for both courses!

Member Rates

AAOS Member, Candidate Member, Associate Member, International Member

Workers' Compensation: $1,174
Whiplash Half-Day Only: $499
Attend Both and Save $150: $1,523

AAOS Emeritus Member

Workers' Compensation: $974
Whiplash Half-Day Only: $499
Attend Both and Save $150: $1,323

Resident, Post-Residency in Fellowship, PA Member, U.S. Military

Workers' Compensation: $974
Whiplash Half-Day Only: $499
Attend Both and Save $150: $1,323

Nonmember Rates

Nonmember, Other Physician

Workers' Compensation: $1,474
Whiplash Half-Day Only: $699
Attend Both and Save $150: $2,023

Nurse, Allied Health, PA Nonmember

Workers' Compensation: $1,074
Whiplash Half-Day Only: $599
Attend Both and Save $150: $1,523

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