AAPM&R Connection E-Newsletter

Please take 20 minutes and complete the PM&R Compensation Survey! There will be a lot of data coming out of this survey, if statistical significance is achieved—so please participate by June 16. AAPM&R member participants will receive the in-depth reports released in 2017 for FREE.

We sent you a reminder email on Monday, June 5. Check that email for your log in information, which is required to participate to ensure that your compensation data is protected. Learn more.

Calling all researchers! To help incorporate new, original research into the 2017 Annual Assembly, we’ve opened a Call for Late-Breaking Research, now available. All submissions must be brand-new research abstracts only, no case studies. Submissions will be accepted until June 30. Learn more and submit yours.

Come to #AAPMR2017 early for our new cancer rehabilitation medicine preconference course on October 11. Attendees will learn strategies to strengthen the overall approach to providing cancer rehabilitation care, including communication techniques, dealing with medical complexity, prehabilitation, and emerging options for screening and surveillance of patients. Learn more and register by August 30 for discounts. All preconference courses are MOC^® approved—visit the website for details.

You won’t want to miss these #AAPMR2017 keynote presentations:

• Thursday: Mick Ebeling, founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs—the world’s first 3D-printing prosthetic lab and training facility, will share new technology capabilities for rehabilitation
• Friday: Dave Anderson, MBA, West Point graduate and co-author of Becoming a Leader of Character, will discuss strategies for enhancing your leadership skills
• Saturday: David M. Crandell, MD, FAAPMR, medical director of the amputee program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, will explain how to transform unique rehabilitation challenges to improve patient care
• Sunday: NEW! PhyzTalks—there’s still time to enter our PhyzTalks video contest. Share your PM&R story with us by June 15 and you could be featured as one of our Sunday plenary speakers. We have great submissions so far, send yours in today.
  
  

Do you have an intermediate knowledge of ultrasound and care for patients with neurologic or musculoskeletal diseases? Then the Next Step Interventional Ultrasound: Hands-On PM&R Applications course is a great fit for you! Offering up to 16.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as well as MOC^® approval, attendees will experience 13 hours of hands-on, diagnostic scanning using live subjects and interventional procedures on cadaveric specimens. Hurry, the early bird deadline is June 14, only a week away! Learn more and register now.

On June 1, 2017, AAPM&R’s development of quality measures kicked-off as members of the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) met at the headquarters of the PCPI^® Foundation, formerly the American Medical Association-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, in Chicago. The multi-specialty TEP reviewed and discussed specifications for physiatric-centric quality measures as part of an ongoing process to develop up to 5 measures. Learn more.

President Trump released his proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2018 last week. The proposal includes $1.5 trillion in nondefense discretionary spending cuts, and would balance the budget within a decade. While the White House budget would reshape federal spending on anti-poverty and safety net programs, it leaves the Medicare program untouched. The budget assumes that repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be accomplished, resulting in estimated savings of $250 billion over the next ten years. The budget features deep cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) – totaling a reduction of $12.4 billion in discretionary funding.

Continue reading this blog on PhyzForum, your online member community, where you can find an archive of health policy-related blog posts to help keep you up-to-date.

• Jaipal S. Sidhu, MD, FAAPMR, physiatrist at Physical Medicine Rehab Clinics in Fresno, CA, was recently recognized as a 2017 "Top Doctor." Read more.

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