AAPM&R Connection E-Newsletter

This holiday season, we want to give our sincere thanks for your continued support of your primary specialty. The Academy is only as strong as its members and volunteers. We couldn’t do it without your involvement. Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful holiday and a very happy New Year!

Exciting news—we're happy to announce that the 2017 PM&R Physician Compensation Survey Report is now available! This 150+ page document includes an executive summary highlighting key learnings from the study and an in-depth static report with comprehensive, de-identified compensation and production data, and a narrative of the results.

Detailed information is provided, including: practice characteristics, physician demographics, clinical activities, income levels, compensation plan structure, and benefits.

Upon renewal of their 2018 dues, AAPM&R members will receive a complimentary report of the findings as a benefit of membership—so, visit www.aapmr.org/renew to pay your 2018 membership dues and access the report today!

Looking for new job? Register now for a complimentary webinar at 12 pm (CT) on January 25 to learn about best practices and tips for using AAPM&R's Job and Fellowship Board.

1. Apply to be a subject matter expert for our new instructional videos—by January 16
2. Submit your 2018 award nominations—by February 28
3. Submit your Academy leader nominations—by February 28
4. The Self-Assessment Committee seeks a practitioner with expertise in amputations, prosthetics, and gait, who is able to write 20 self-assessment questions per year.
5. Nominate yourself to be part of the AAPM&R faculty team, or let us know who you would recommend.
   

If you attended the 2017 Annual Assembly, don’t forget to claim your CME. Visit the My Education tab on mē^® to get started.

Important: For CME you earn by attending a live event, it is applied to the year in which the event occurred. AAPM&R encourages you to claim your CME by December 31, 2017 for any live events you attended this year, including the 2017 Annual Assembly and the Next Step Interventional Ultrasound: Hands-On PM&R Applications course.

You still have time to take care of important year-end tasks, such as CME requirements. As an AAPM&R member, you receive access to mē^®, the Academy’s home for the clinical and practice resources you need.

Plus, you receive complimentary, peer-developed resources focused on lifelong learning that help assess your skills and move your career forward, including a self-assessment of your choosing, worth 8 CME. Simply renew your 2018 membership for these complimentary resources, and even more below:

• Case studies—1 CME each
• PM&R Journal CME—1 CME each
• Self-assessments—8 CME each
• Online courses, videos, slide lectures—various CME
  

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has launched a major initiative to define the future of certification.

Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future is a collaborative process that brings together multiple stakeholders including physicians, professional medical organizations, national specialty and state medical societies, hospitals and health systems, the general public and patients, the 24 Member Boards of the ABMS, and others.

Board certification and continuing certification are important parts of professional self-regulation and professional identity. In a transparent and open process, the Vision Initiative is designed to assess the current state of continuing board certification and envision its framework for the future.

To do this, the initiative’s Planning Committee has issued a Call for Nominations seeking 21 to 25 individuals to serve on the Commission.

AAPM&R actively advocates on behalf of our members that the certification processes and requirements must be relevant and valuable, and avoid unnecessary and excessive burden on the participant. This Commission is the process designed by ABMS to create a solution for the future structure of certification. We desire to have a strong PM&R leadership voice in this very important Commission, and we highly encourage you to nominate yourself.

Read the full details here and nominate yourself by January 8.

• Ahmed Ayoub, MD, FAAPMR, recently joined the medical staff at McLaren Flint. Read more.
• Andrea Cheville, MD, FAAPMR, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic, is a co-author of a viewpoint article, “Management of Chronic Pain in the Aftermath of the Opioid Backlash,” published in JAMA. Read more.
• Jonathan Halperin, MD, FAAPMR, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego, is president of the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine and Science (JCSMS) and serves as AAPM&R’s representative to JCSMS. At the 2017 AAPM&R Annual Assembly, he interviewed Edward Laskowski, MD, FAAPMR, who is the co-director of the Mayo Sports Medicine Clinic. In the interview, Dr. Laskowski discusses the exciting new programs that are occurring in sports medicine, exercise, fitness, and sports science at the Mayo Clinic. Listen to the interview here.
  
• Daniel Painter, MD, 2017 graduate of MetroHealth Medical Center Case Western Reserve University, recently joined SwedishAmerican. Read more.

Do you have a newsworthy story to share with your peers? Send us an email at: pressinquiries@aapmr.org. Please note: AAPM&R reserves the right to deny requests where the purpose or content may not be considered in the best interests of AAPM&R or its members.