Abime

[vanbamm]

There is a program for MD/DC where you can become certified to be a certified independent examiner (different tracks for the MD and DC); Does anyone know what the real benefits are of belonging to this, whether or not it really is worth attaining?

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[OveractiveBrain]

My response is similar to Toot, on drawn together, large top teeth with a donkey's "eeh huh?" with drool coming out her mouth. What are you talking about!?

I am going to be a certified independent examiner, as in, every patient I see is my responsibility. If you mean examiner as in I get to test people, then I will be evaluating students and residents daily, every two weeks, and at the end of each block rotation.

To what are you referring my good squishy friend? Methinks you are lost in your Chiro lingo, assuming that the words you use are going to be immediately comprehended by others in a different field. Perhaps "Allopathic" is not the best place to be posting.

 

[vanbamm]

My response is similar to Toot, on drawn together, large top teeth with a donkey's "eeh huh?" with drool coming out her mouth. What are you talking about!?

I am going to be a certified independent examiner, as in, every patient I see is my responsibility. If you mean examiner as in I get to test people, then I will be evaluating students and residents daily, every two weeks, and at the end of each block rotation.

To what are you referring my good squishy friend? Methinks you are lost in your Chiro lingo, assuming that the words you use are going to be immediately comprehended by others in a different field. Perhaps "Allopathic" is not the best place to be posting.

My response would be similar to the blank stare of a looney toons character with an audible *blink blink*- ABIME is a certification, not just a term to classify the practitioner with direct patient access and responsibility for care- from what I understand, you have to be in practice for 5 years in order to apply, and then take some tests and attend seminars specific to what they want you to know- mainly disability evaluation and up to date evaluation processes- outside of normal practice, these practitoners are asked to evaluate cases for getting disability, rating level of disability or impairment(physical, psychological etc.) and these are patients you have had no prior contact with or ever treated before, so you are a neutral party providing a more thorough evaluation for what may have been overlooked, or the complaint that does not match the examination results (malingerers). I think the whole idea is that through the certification you are given benefits (free/discounted education, free subscriptions to journals, and can obtain higher fees for your services through insurance because the certification assumes a higher level of expertise...I just want to know if anyone has any idea if this holds true and what benefits it has brought them bc sometimes what is on paper does not always manifest.