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Training
> Professional Certifications
Certified Impairment Rater®
If you perform, review or manage impairment
evaluation ratings this certification, with an
integrated learning experience, is essential.
- Distinguish yourself and your
organization by demonstrating knowledge and
skills in the assessment of impairment using
the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of
Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition.
- Unique, highly cost and time effective
evaluation and educational opportunity,
leading to certification.
- on-line certification examination;
- open book;
- one hundred questions;
- one week to complete;
- approximately four hours of your time;
- increase your abilities to apply the
Guides.
- Utilize a Certified Impairment Rater®
to obtain a more reliable and accurate
rating, therefore avoiding needless cost,
delays and conflict.
The first step is completion and successful passing of the
Online Skills Assessment - $197
If you've passed the Skills Assessment -
Obtain status as a Certified Impairment Rater here - $147
The Certification as
a Certified Impairment Rater® was created to
establish and maintain standards of
knowledge, skills and abilities of
individuals who perform impairment
and/or disability evaluations. The
quality of ratings performed by
physicians, attorneys, claims staff, and
others varies widely. The goal of
certification is to improve the quality
and reliability of ratings - therefore
reducing conflict and facilitating fair
resolution of claims. This certification
is essential to all professionals
involved in impairment and disability
evaluation. The fee is modest ($344) and
the returns of being certified are
enormous.
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Who should seek this Certification?
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Physicians
performing impairment ratings,
whether as independent medical
evaluators, Qualified Medical
Examiners, Agreed Medical Examiners,
or treating physicians. California
Medical Provider Networks should
require this of physicians
performing impairment ratings.
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Attorneys (defense
and plaintiff) who are involved in
workers' compensation. Their law
firms and clients should require
this as a standard.
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Claims professionals
and judges in systems that make use
of the AMA Guides.
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The certification process was
developed by
Christopher R. Brigham, MD, a leading expert
on the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent
Impairment and the Founding Director of the
American Board of Independent Medical
Examiners. His firm,
Brigham and Associates, Inc., has defined
standards of excellence in impairment and
disability assessment. Individuals meeting the
certification requirements
are designated Certified Impairment Rater®. Those candidates
meeting the requirements and passing the CIRE
receive a certificate which is valid for three
years.
Take The First Step
- Take the Comprehensive Skills Assessment
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