Busy Medical Psychologists are often required to do brief neuropsych screenings and evaluations and consultation involving identification of aging and decline, trauma residual damage, and related advice to medical teams about diagnosis and treatment and placement or linkage with services! Consequently, many Medical Psychologists will, of necessity, develop introductory or even advanced neuropsychological expertise, skill, and local laboratory set ups with trained technicians or assistants (now allowed for the gathering of data for the doctor by Medicare-if the psychologist is on the premises, and many insurers. AMP is advocating for CMS and state Medicaid Programs to adopt similar assistant rules and regulations.
Consequently, the Medical Psychologist must show, and document in the assistant's personnel file, that they have responsibly, ethically, and conscientiously trained their assistants and that they have thus privileged them based on performance in training, and that they are in close ordering and professional supervision of these assistants and that the Medical Psychologist does the interpretation of the data and writes the reports and affixes the diagnoses.
This set of tests CE Training is the first in a line of CEs that our Medical Psychologists, and AMP Members, can easily access and utilize to train their neuropsychological technicians.
This CE, and each training module in this section, will afford 3.0 hours of CE for licensed psychologists for each neuropsychological test module they complete, and the doctor taking the CE first adds credibility to the later use of this CE to train technicians/assistants under the direction of the psychologist.