ACOEM’s Essentials of Occupational Medicine program will be comprised of approximately 60 individual courses in 15 sections and provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the clinical, technical, and professional concepts of the field for the non-specialist or new entrant.

This course covers Malingering. It encourages medical examiners to look at all relevant information and the medical history to determine if the symptoms of malingering are present. This course is designed to education health professionals on steps needed to properly investigate, examine, and complete thorough and comprehensive evaluations of patients.

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:

• Discuss current psychosocial issues in disability evaluation such as symptom amplification, secondary gain, and malingering.
• Accurately and consistently identify the characteristics of malingering such as symptom faking, inconsistency, incongruency, incoherence,  discontinuity, or non- compliance.
• Identify analytic techniques.

The course provides an excellent and comprehensive introduction to graduated return to work programs for the non-OEM specialist or new entrant

The activity is available on-demand, and those who register will receive access automatically. Please be sure that this is the course you wish to purchase as refunds are not permitted after the transaction is complete. Once the purchase has been completed you will be granted access to the online/on-demand activity. If this purchase was made in error, do not access the course. Refund requests must be received in writing within 24 hours of the purchase to educationinfo@acoem.org. Refunds will be issued for duplicate purchases if no progress has been made in the course and will be issued minus an administrative fee of $100.00. Refunds will not be provided for courses that have been accessed and/or started.