[The Master of Advanced Studies in Insurance Medicine, a Postgraduate Program at the University of Basel].

The Master of Advanced Studies in Insurance Medicine, a Postgraduate Program at the University of Basel The MAS Insurance Medicine, a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary postgraduate program at the University of Basel, currently offers the most comprehensive qualification for insurance physicians on three levels (Master, Diploma, and Certificate of Advanced Studies). Individual learning formats allow for optimal alignment with individual professional needs. In addition to specific insurance medicine topics, the course content includes important disease patterns, evidence-based insurance medicine and public health, as well as health economics, ethical and legal topics.

Digitally Assisted Standard Diagnostics in Insurance Medicine (DASDIM): psychometric data in psychiatric work disability evaluations.

Purpose: Insurers often commission psychiatric experts to evaluate the eligibility of workers with mental disorders for disability benefits, by estimating their residual work capacity (RWC). We investigated the validity of a standardized, computer-based battery of established diagnostic instruments, for evaluating the personality, cognition, performance, symptom burden, and symptom validity of claimants.

Methods: One hundred and fifty-three claimants for benefits were assessed by the assembled test battery, which was applied in addition to a conventional clinical work disability evaluation.

Satisfaction of staff of Swiss insurance companies with medical appraisals: a cross sectional study.

Background: A high quality of timely delivered medical appraisals is crucial for social and other insurances to judge possible occupational reintegration measures for patients with medical conditions who are in danger to lose their job. However, little is known about the satisfaction of staff of insurance companies with medical appraisals that they have commissioned.Our questionnaire survey prospectively included all medical appraisals arriving at Swiss insurances from FEB to APR 2008.

Quality assessment of a randomly selected sample of Swiss medical expertises--a pilot study.

Background: Considerable criticism has lately been raised by the media regarding the quality of Swiss medical expertises. The present investigation was therefore undertaken to assess the professional quality of Swiss medical expertises. The study was part of a market analysis of medical expertises (MGS study).