Recorded for the 2019 Spring Convention

38 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint

Course Description:

Dr. Schumann discusses in detail how providers can function effectively in the Occupational Medicine environment, particularly managing workers' compensation patient care. Work comp brings its own challenges to the Urgent Care clinic and providers need to understand making appropriate decisions regarding establishing job causation, providing appropriate care that is consistent with treatment guidelines and other mandates, and finally recognizing when and how to conclude care.

Speaker: Steven C. Schumann, MD

Dr. Schumann graduated from Pomona College, Claremont, CA with a Bachelor’s in Zoology and later from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. He completed his internship at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA then enlisting in the United States Army, serving as Battalion Surgeon in the 78th Combat Engineer Battalion, Germany. Dr. Schumann returned to California to complete an Emergency Medicine Residency at Valley Medical Center thereafter joining the Emergency Medicine staff at Saint Agnes Medical Center, both in Fresno. Working for several years and then departing the hospital Emergency Department, he opened an Occupational Medicine practice and ten years later sold the practice to a public company but remained as Executive Medical Director for an additional six years. Concurrent with managing the practice, he assisted a large California work comp insurance carrier as District Consultant. Thereafter, he joined HealthSouth Corporation as National Medical Director/Vice President for Occupational Medicine. When that program was dissolved he joined Concentra as Northern California Medical Director. For the past 11 years, Dr. Schumann has served as Medical Director, Occupational Health with Salinas Urgent Care/Doctors on Duty Medical Clinics. He works closely with the local partner hospital and has particular interest in health care issues regarding hospital staff, agricultural workers and firefighters.

Disclosures:

None

1 CME

Designation Statement

The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accreditation Statement

The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Submitting for Credit:

If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 5 question knowledge test and answer 3 out of 5 correctly. Your certificate will be available in your library under Credits and below the title of the session.

Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.