These will help put a professional face on your IME reports. But it’s much more than branding — these professional-level tools can improve your process, your practice, and your outcomes.
Choose the tools that will help you the most:
5th Edition — essential IME forms and templates
Templates and forms facilitate the development of a quality report: the MS Word product resulting from your evaluation. Their use results in a more thorough and highly valued product, and saves time.
The template package consists of Examinee Forms (including a Welcome, “Information and Instructions About Your Examination” (informed consent), Medical Evaluation Questionnaire, Pain Drawing, Functional Inventories (Pain Disability Questionnaire, QuickDASH and AAOS Lower Limb Outcome Scale) and Satisfaction Survey (completed by the examinee at the end of the visit). Report templates are provided for female and male; a PDF version provides comments and explanations.
Best practices are to complete as much of the Template prior to the evaluation, including deleting sections that are not relevant. The resulting draft is used during the visit to record your findings and serves at the basis for your report. You may choose to dictate the examinee’s history in the presence of the examinee. You may complete your report using the draft document with notes; you will make edits and add text (which may be transcribed) as appropriate. When the report is complete, update the Table of Contents at the beginning of the report by moving your cursor over that section, right clicking and left clicking on “Update Field”. Optionally, you may add an Index. Spell and grammar check prior to sending to your client.
Report formats are to be used and modified only by licensed purchasers. The licenses are for single users; multiple users may use only if a written license permitting this is obtained from Brigham and Associates, Inc. Therefore, the templates are not to be shared in a practice or among colleagues; such sharing lacks integrity, does not reflect an appreciation of the hundreds of hours involved in developing and refining these resources, and is illegal.
Form and Template package includes:
- Instructions on Use
- Examinee Forms (PDF Version)
- Examinee Forms (Word Version for editing)
- Female Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (PDF Version with comments)
- Female Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (Word Version for editing)
- Male Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (PDF Version with comments)
- Male Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (Word Version for editing)
5th Edition forms — ready to use:
6th Edition — essential IME forms and templates
Templates and forms facilitate the development of a quality report – the word product resulting from your evaluation. Their use will result in a more thorough and highly valued product, and saves time.
The template package consists of Examinee Forms (including a Welcome, “Information and Instructions About Your Examination” (informed consent), Medical Evaluation Questionnaire, Pain Drawing, Functional Inventories (Pain Disability Questionnaire, QuickDASH and AAOS Lower Limb Outcome Scale) and Satisfaction Survey (completed by the examinee at the end of the visit). Report templates are provided for female and male.
Best practices are to complete as much of the Template prior to the evaluation, including deleting sections that are not relevant. The resulting draft is used during the visit to record your findings and serves at the basis for your report. You may choose to dictate the examinee’s history in the presence of the examinee. You may complete your report using the draft document with notes; you will make edits and add text (which may be transcribed) as appropriate. When the report is complete, update the Table of Contents at the beginning of the report by moving your cursor over that section, right clicking and left clicking on “Update Field”. Optionally, you may add an Index. Spell and grammar check prior to sending to your client.
Report formats are to be used and modified only by licensed purchasers. The licenses are for single users; multiple users may use only if a written license permitting this is obtained from Brigham and Associates, Inc. Therefore, the templates are not to be shared in a practice or among colleagues; such sharing lacks integrity, does not reflect an appreciation of the hundreds of hours involved in developing and refining these resources, and is illegal.
From and Template package includes:
- Instructions on Use
- Examinee Forms (PDF Version)
- Examinee Forms (Word Version for editing)
- Female Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (Word Version for editing)
- Male Medical and Impairment Evaluation Report Template (Word Version for editing)
6th Edition forms — ready to use:
IME Handbook
by Steven Feinberg, MD and Christopher R. Brigham, MD
An essential resource for any physician performing independent medical evaluations (IME). This concise book is full of crucial information, including the difference between an IME and medical consultation, IME referral sources, pitfalls, report writing techniques, pre- and post-evaluation issues, IME report writing, fee and payment policies, IME liability issues, marketing, training and certification, recommended reading, and IME Checklist.
Word list for auto-indexing reports
Indexing your reports provides more value to clients and augments your reports. In MS Word, you can insert an index in less than a minute — but first you need a file of words for AutoMark.
This 26-page document of index words will save you several hours of effort:
E-mail signature template
Your emails should reflect your professionalism, including an appropriate signature with non-disclosure notices. Using the template, you can create a professional signature in 2–3 minutes.
Get this template and watch the following video:
