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Research Trends 115 : Effect of Facet Fixation and Thrust on Muscle Spindal Activity, Contact Site for SMT and Sensory Input to CNS
1.0

Dean Smith, DC, PhD

$20.00 USD

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  • Describe the effect of intervertebral facet joint fixation and segmental thrust level on paraspinal muscle spindle activity
  • Determine how contact site for high velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation affects sensory input to the central nervous system
  • Assess the association between low-tech clinical tests commonly used in adult patients with acute, recurrent or chronic LBP and short- and long-term outcome
  • Discuss the role for neck manipulation in elderly falls prevention
  • Summarize North American chiropractic students’ opinions concerning professional identity, role and future

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Research Trends 116 : Current Research on SMT
1.0

Dean Smith, DC, PhD

$20.00 USD

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  • Assess whether low back pain (LBP) patients who respond to spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) differ biomechanically from non-responders and untreated asymptomatic controls
  • Describe the comparative effectiveness of manipulation versus usual medical care for acute and subacute low back pain
  • Determine the effectiveness of adding upper cervical manipulation to a multimodal program for patients with fibromyalgia
  • Discuss the effects of forward head posture correction in patients with chronic discogenic lumbosacral radiculopathy
  • Summarize US chiropractors' attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Research Trends 117 : Adverse Events Involving Manual Therapy Providers, Role of the Cervical Spine with PCS, Effects of Chiropractic Treatment of GI Disorders
1.0

Dean Smith, DC, PhD

$20.00 USD

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  • Review the literature for cases of adverse events in infants and children treated by chiropractors or other manual therapists
  • Analyze provider specialties in the treatment of patients with back and joint problems
  • Review the role of the cervical spine in post-concussion syndrome
  • Assess whether the availability of chiropractic care affects use of primary care physician (PCP) services
  • Describe the effect of chiropractic treatment on gastrointestinal (GI) disorders

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Rheumatology 101 : Fibromyalgia: Facts, Diagnosis and Treatment
2.0

Virginia Norris-Schafer, DC, MD

$40.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Define Fibromyalgia according to the ACR criteria
  • Discuss the history and epidemiology of Fibromyalgia
  • Assess the differential diagnoses, triggers and possible causes of Fibromyalgia and discuss how they can help in the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia
  • Identify several triggers for the exacerbation of Fibromyalgia
  • List the symptoms of depression, grief and adjustment disorder that can be clues for the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia
  • Recall the symptoms of dysfunctional sleep, chronic pain and fatigue that help to diagnose Fibromyalgia
  • Compare some of the triggers that may make pain worse in the Fibromyalgia patient and factors that may decrease pain in the Fibromyalgia patient

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Rheumatology 102 : Chiropractic and Rheumatology - The Perfect Marriage
3.0

Virginia Norris-Schafer, DC, MD

$60.00 USD

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  • Define Rheumatology and Chiropractic and list similarities
  • Critique some of the downfalls in today’s treatment protocol of the Rheumatic patient and explain why Chiropractors should be aware of this patient population
  • Discuss Integrative Medicine and outline some of the important options for holistic treatment
  • Discuss other health concerns facing the Rheumatic Patient
  • List the steps used in evaluating the Rheumatic Patient
  • Identify some of the tools used for diagnosis and treatment of the Rheumatic Patient
  • Analyze the patient’s symptoms and test values and compare for differential diagnose
  • Evaluate laboratory tests and values used to diagnose Rheumatic diseases and syndromes
  • Select the best imaging techniques for specific Rheumatic diseases and soft tissue syndromes
  • Identify some of the diseases specific issues in a few of the Rheumatic diseases and syndromes discussed
  • Recognize the symptoms, diagnosis protocols and treatments of some of the more prevalent arthritic diseases and syndromes

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 103 : Introduction to Documentation Principles
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

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  • Construct a list of four specific compliance risk areas for physicians
  • Establish internal control mechanisms
  • Distinguish aspects of Quality Assurance
  • Develop Documentation Principles
  • Identify documentation warning signs and components of SNOCAMP

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 105 : Georgia Workers' Compensation Act Laws, Rules and Regulations
3.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$60.00 USD

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  • Review important laws, rules and regulations related to the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act
  • Develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of the parties and a working knowledge of the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act
  • The Georgia chiropractor will expand and/or update current knowledge base relating to the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act and treatment

  • NOTE: Provides 2 hours of Risk and 1 hour Jurisprudence
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 106 : How to Minimize Risks and Avoid Malpractice Actions
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

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  • Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to malpractice
  • Minimize risks and failure in malpractice actions
  • Encourage development and nurturing of skill sets in avoiding malpractice actions
  • Identify action steps for minimizing risks of malpractice actions

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 107 : The Informed Consent Process and How to Avoid Malpractice Actions
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

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  • Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to informed consent
  • Minimize risks and failure in malpractice actions
  • Encourage development and nurturing of skill sets in avoiding malpractice actions by utilizing properly executed informed consent
  • Identify action steps for minimizing risks of malpractice actions

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 108 : Identifying and Managing a Complication of Neural Injury From Manipulation
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

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  • Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to malpractice actions from neural injury
  • Minimize risks and failure in malpractice actions
  • Encourage development and nurturing of skill sets in avoiding malpractice actions by utilizing proper manipulative procedures, recognizing post-operative complications and risks, and identifying and managing a complication.
  • Identify action steps for minimizing risks of malpractice actions from neural injury

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 110 : How to Review Legal Opinions
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

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  • Emphasize that each chiropractic provider must keep informed as to the laws and their interpretation in their particular state of practice
  • Identify various ingredients found in a typical judicial opinion
  • Discuss what each chiropractic provider should look for when they read an opinion
  • Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to legal opinions
  • Encourage development and nurturing of skill sets in reading legal opinions by utilizing case method

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 111 : Malpractice Primer: The Basics
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Describe each of the four elements of malpractice
  • Differentiate between a bad treatment result and malpractice
  • Define Duty, Dereliction of Duty, Direct causation, and Damage
  • Search out a case report on-line or in a law library by using the case citation

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 112 : Fee-Splitting, Self Referrals and Kickbacks: Steering Clear of Prohibited Healthcare Arrangement
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Identify specific conduct and activities within the practice of healthcare that violate a host of regulatory and statutory proscriptions relating to fee splits and kickbacks
  • Explain the development of current fee-splitting laws
  • Distinguish the letter of the law regarding fee-splitting and anti-kickback legislation from unprofessional conduct and consequent harms the statutes were enacted to discourage
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge regarding the roles played by the various state and federal enforcement agencies as they related to fee splits and kickbacks
  • Assess ones working knowledge regarding the process by which anti-referral safe harbors developed and how they operate

  • NOTE: This course is based on the same information as Risk 124 in a Text Format
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 113 : Avoiding Ethical Landmines and Criminality in Your Healthcare Employment Agreement
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

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  • Evaluate sample healthcare employment agreement
  • Explain the components of a well drafted healthcare employment agreement
  • Relate likely enforcement of provisions included in healthcare employment contract
  • Assess non-compete provisions through a judicial balancing test
  • Distinguish the various methods by which a court will rehabilitate certain contract provisions and selectively enforce others
  • Explain what kinds of contract provisions may run afoul of state and federal laws, including fee splitting and kickback prohibitions

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 114 : Selling a Healthcare Practice: Ethical, Legal, Financial and Tax Considerations
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

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  • Evaluate a sample sale agreement and sample letter issued to patients upon dissolution of practice
  • Explain components of any well drafted buy-sell agreement including non-competes
  • Identify how to handle patient records vis-à-vis the sale
  • Understanding forms and laws relating to the transfer of logos, trademarks and Internet Domain Names
  • HIPAA Considerations
  • Acquaint oneself with the tax consequences of particular types of practice sales
  • Discuss valuation methods used for determining an appropriate practice sales price
  • Identify legal concerns associated with the dissolution of a healthcare practice
  • Recognize how sales can trigger violations: fee splitting, patient abandonment, kickback, and anti-trust

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 115 : Administrative and Clinical Risk Management Protection Strategies
3.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$60.00 USD

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  • Identify "high risk" patients
  • Design protection strategies for telephone "advice."
  • List the "4 D's" of malpractice
  • Differentiate clinical from administrative malpractice risks
  • Distinguish malpractice from an adverse patient outcome
  • Describe how a non-office encounter can create a dr/patient relationship
  • Give examples of statutory duties beyond clinical care
  • Explain how you can be guilty of malpractice without being negligent
  • Assess office equipment hazards
  • Discuss malpractice cases where patient was never given an adjustment

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 116a : Recordkeeping and Documentation Rules Part 1
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Discuss problems created by leaving blank spaces in records
  • Create practice appropriate SOAP note format to reduce risk exposures
  • Recognize Health Questionnaire “red flag” responses

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 116b : Recordkeeping and Documentation Rules Part 2
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Integrate protective “rules for recordkeeping"
  • Monitor records release authorizations
  • Individualize pre-printed forms to conform with your practice and reduce risk exposures

  • NOTE: Recommend taking Risk 116a prior to this course
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 116c : Recordkeeping and Documentation Rules Part 3
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Identify and document significant patient non-compliance
  • Generate appropriate X-ray warning labels
  • Identify “bad” forms
  • Incorporate protective letters-writing protocols

  • NOTE: Recommend taking Risk 116a and 116b prior to this course
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 117a : Pretrial and Trial Preparation Part 1
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Recognize “exposure events” in area's of potential risk management
  • Discuss proper communication of a potential exposure event with a malpractice carrier
  • Maintain a healthy practice while in litigation
  • Prepare staff for dealing with the publicity of litigation

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 117b : Pretrial and Trial Preparation Part 2
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Prepare for a deposition
  • Identify “informed consent” compliance
  • Analyze your website for potential risk management issues
  • Recognize deposition “tricks & traps”

  • NOTE: Recommend taking Risk 117a prior to this course
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 117c : Pretrial and Trial Preparation Part 3
1.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$20.00 USD

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  • Properly prepare for a trial
  • Prepare for lawyers questioning techniques
  • Avoid detrimental body language in front of a jury
  • Prepare for the phases of trial and the "down time" associated with trial

  • NOTE: Recommend taking Risk 117a and 117b prior to this course
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 118 : Business Structure and Other Risk Reduction Strategies
3.0

Jacob Ladenheim, JD

$60.00 USD

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  • Find and Analyze Chiropractic Malpractice Court Opinions
  • Justify referral protocols
  • Plan staff training to avoid "vicarious liability"
  • Interpret "lawyer-speak" like "vicarious liability"
  • Assess equipment risk
  • Differentiate between good PR & sexual harassment
  • Generate HIPAA compliance strategies w/o paranoia
  • Appraise partnership, independent contractor and doctor/associate risks
  • Implement Table safety procedures
  • Recognize "exposure events"

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 119 : Understanding the Legalities of Fee Discounts, Particularly Time-of-Service Discounts and Hardship Discounts - 6 Hour
6.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$120.00 USD

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  • Assess state, federal and board rulings regarding fee discounts, particularly time-of-service discounts and hardship discounts, and the extent to which they may be impacted by anti-kickback legislation, insurance regulations, self-referral laws, marketing restrictions, and the tenets of unprofessional conduct..
  • Identify potential problems associated with routine approval of hardship discounts and the requirement for inquiry and documentation regarding qualifying for same.
  • Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate/illegal marketing relating to fees and professional services.
  • Demonstrate how these discounts are regarded by relevant professional boards, and state and federal enforcement agencies.
  • Explain terms associated with time of service discounts and relevant factors associated in calculating an appropriate reduction in fees.
  • Identify specific conduct and activities within the practice of healthcare that violate a host of regulatory and statutory proscriptions relating to pre-paid fee arrangements.
  • Explain the development of current fee discounting legislation, rules and holdings.
  • Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate/illegal marketing relating to fees and professional services.
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge regarding the roles played by the various state and federal enforcement agencies as they related to fee splits and kickbacks.
  • Assess one’s working knowledge regarding the process by which state and federal rulings regarding fees impact a healthcare provider’s practice in light of marketing, fee-splitting and anti-kickback legislation, insurance regulations, self-referrals, and the tenets of unprofessional conduct generally.
  • Verify how certain discount practices may be legally actionable as “improper inducements.”
  • Evaluate federal Stark legislation and the discouragement of corruption in sound professional healthcare decision-making.
  • Identify distinctions between federal anti-kickback and the federal Stark legislation.
  • Critique state anti-kickback laws.
  • Recognize the role the FTC played, and continues to play, in discouraging the fraudulent marketing of discount health care programs.
  • Draw associations between co-pay requirements, consumer habits and federal healthcare expenditures.
  • Assess how "professional courtesy" discounts may raise enforcers' concerns under the federal anti-kickback statute.
  • Diagram how prepaid fee arrangements often resemble health insurance to unwitting patients.
  • Illustrate pitfalls that advertising discounts visit on the practitioner.

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 120 : Understanding the Legalities of Fee Discounts, Particularly Time-of-Service Discounts and Hardship Discounts - 3 Hour
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Assess state, federal and board rulings regarding fee discounts, particularly time-of-service discounts and hardship discounts, and the extent to which they may be impacted by anti-kickback legislation, insurance regulations, self-referral laws, marketing restrictions, and the tenets of unprofessional conduct..
  • Identify potential problems associated with routine approval of hardship discounts and the requirement for inquiry and documentation regarding qualifying for same.
  • Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate/illegal marketing relating to fees and professional services.
  • Demonstrate how these discounts are regarded by relevant professional boards, and state and federal enforcement agencies.
  • Explain terms associated with time of service discounts and relevant factors associated in calculating an appropriate reduction in fees.
  • Identify specific conduct and activities within the practice of healthcare that violate a host of regulatory and statutory proscriptions relating to pre-paid fee arrangements.
  • Explain the development of current fee discounting legislation, rules and holdings.
  • Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate/illegal marketing relating to fees and professional services.
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge regarding the roles played by the various state and federal enforcement agencies as they related to fee splits and kickbacks.
  • Assess one's working knowledge regarding the process by which state and federal rulings regarding fees impact a healthcare provider's practice in light of marketing, fee-splitting and anti-kickback legislation, insurance regulations, self-referrals, and the tenets of unprofessional conduct generally.

  • PLEASE NOTE:  Risk 120 is a 3 hour course which contains content from Risk 119.  It is a shorter version using an AV Presentation.
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 121 : Nutritional Supplementation and Counseling: Tackling Some Legal Issues
2.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$40.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Assess how state scopes of practice affect chiropractic treatment of nutrition-related health problems.
  • Identify the roles the FDA and FTC play in the administration of nutritional healthcare.
  • Distinguish between a "food" and a "drug" for purposes of nutritional supplementation.
  • Demonstrate how the various states' ban against the practice of medicine affects other disciplines' approach to nutritional healthcare.
  • Explain aspects of nutrition labeling.
  • Identify issues associated with current performance-enhancing supplementation.
  • Explain the significance of distinguishing "treatment" from "informing" as it relates to nutritional counseling.

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 122 : Treating the Athlete: Unique Malpractice Issues
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Assess the relationship between the implementation of efficient office systems, accurate record keeping, patient communication, and adherence to professional standards of conduct within the context of malpractice allegations by patients who engage in sports.
  • Identify actions suggestive of malpractice negligence and conduct that fails to live up to the standard established by law for the protection of others.
  • Demonstrate a professional relationship can spring into existence when the healthcare professional is hired by a third party to oversee the health of athletic participants.
  • Distinguish the duties an examining physician has regarding informing those athletes he examines about abnormal test results.
  • Explain the legal concept of “assumption of the risks” within the context of sports participation and how it affects a healthcare professional’s liability.
  • Identify “therapeutic exceptions” to providing informed consent excusing the practitioner from fully disclosing matters where they might unfavorably affect the outcome of a patient’s treatment.
  • Explain a healthcare professional’s duty to warn patients engaged in sports regarding injury prevention following treatment.
  • Examine a practitioner’s duties regarding athletes’ return to play in instances when head injury and concussion may be a factor.

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 123 : Avoiding Charges of Patient Abandonment, Terminating the Doctor/Patient Relationship Lawfully and Ethically
2.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$40.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Assess the role the doctor-patient relationship plays in allegations of Patient Abandonment
  • Identify the components to any successful Patient Abandonment charge
  • Discuss court cases evaluating whether the doctor-patient relationship had been terminated lawfully
  • Distinguish between proper and improper considerations a doctor may rely upon to either refuse to undertake, or to terminate, a doctor-patient relationship
  • Explain the role notice plays in lawfully terminating a doctor-patient relationship
  • Evaluate the role consent plays in the establishment of the doctor-patient relationship, and in subsequent treatment

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 124 : Fee Splitting
3.0

Peter Van Tyle, Esq

$60.00 USD

AudioVisual Course

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  • Identify specific conduct and activities within the practice of healthcare that violate a host of regulatory and statutory proscriptions relating to fee splits and kickbacks
  • Explain the development of current fee-splitting laws
  • Distinguish the letter of the law regarding fee-splitting and anti-kickback legislation from unprofessional conduct and consequent harms the statutes were enacted to discourage
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge regarding the roles played by the various state and federal enforcement agencies as they related to fee splits and kickbacks
  • Assess ones working knowledge regarding the process by which anti-referral safe harbors developed and how they operate

  • NOTE: This course is based on the same information as Risk 112 in an AV Format
No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31

Risk 125 : Introduction to Forensic Science
1.0

Leanne Cupon, DC, DACRB and Warren Jahn, DC, DIANM (US)

$20.00 USD

Downloadable Course in PDF, Text

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  • Develop a level of knowledge, comprehension, and understanding of the medicolegal system as it relates to the practice of forensic science
  • Identify a new dimension of chiropractic practice that will minimize risks and failure in court appearances as a practitioner
  • Construct skill sets in forensic examination and document review

No Specific CE Requirements
Expires: 2030-12-31