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.

The course covers Return to Work Barriers It looks at multifactorial barriers or obstacles that can deviate the recovery time from what is expected. This course is designed to equip health professionals to be better able to identify and understand return to work barriers.

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners should be able to:
• Apply a biopsychosocial approach to planning and monitoring work rehabilitation.
• Accurately identify a range of barrier to return to work.
• Develop strategies to prevent and manage return to work barriers.

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.