• The Office of medical evaluation: answers to your questions!
• Summary of the conferences of the 2nd Conference of the Office of medical judgment “Beyond the evaluation of the functional capacities: stakes” (May 14th and 15th 2008).
  
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Mandate

The Office of medical evaluation has the mandate to implement the mechanism of medical judgment provided for by the Law to the industrial accidents and the occupational illness.

Commitment

Its commitment consists in offering, in the respect of the individuals, the medical judgments in conformity with the current scientific knowledge.

Neutrality

At the time of his creation in 1992, the legislator made so that the concerns the responsibility for the Minister for Labor in order to preserve his neutrality and its impartiality. Of this way, it made sure that the organization is independent of the Commission of the health and the industrial safety which has a mission related to administration and Commission of the professional lesions (PLC) whose mission is in legal matter.

Medical advice

When there is divergence of opinions between the attending physician of the worker and the doctor appointed by the employer or the , the is called, at the request of the , to return a medical advice. The also can, of its own initiative, to require such an opinion of the .

Members of the

Annually, the Advisory counsel of work and labor draws up a list of members of the . The is a gathering joint company of employers' associations and trade-union. This list is then submitted to the Minister for Labor.

Selection criteria

To be duly registered or re-registered on this list, each health professional must meet several criteria. Among those, one finds the recommendation by his professional command, in particular the College of the doctors of Quebec and the Command of the dentists of Quebec .

Appraise recognized

To produce these medical advices, the is pressed on a team of health professionals qualified and recognized by their pars. Those hold an expertise connected to various pathologies of work. The members of the are obviously forwarded to the respect of the code of conduct of their profession, that is to say those of and the .

File

The medical evaluation can relate to:

• the diagnosis;
• the date of consolidation of the lesion;
• nature, need, the sufficiency or duration of the care or the managed or prescribed processing;
• the existence or percentage of attack permanent to the physical integrity or psychic of the worker;
• the existence or the evaluation of the functional limitations of the worker.

Transmission of the medical advice

Following the medical evaluation, an opinion is sent to the worker like with his attending physician in the case of an exception. The , the employer, the doctor appointed by the employer or the will also receive a copy from it.

and opinion of the

The is linked by the opinion given by the member of the , which means that it must return a decision consequently. This decision can be disputed by the worker or the employer in front of the PLC. For more information on this subject, please communicate with the .

Decision of the

The decision concerning the relation between the wound or the disease and work concerns the and not the member of the .

It also returns with the to usually decide recovery or not completed work by the broken worker. It can also decide possible amendment of the work station or a reorientation in another type of work.

Refunded expenditure

Certain expenditure engaged by the worker to go to the examination carried out by a member of the can be to him refunded by the . For this purpose, the worker must get information in advance near the agent responsible for his file to the and take arrangements necessary.

Form Requires reimbursement of expenses

Forms are at the disposal of the customers in the waiting rooms of the offices of the . You also can you get this form in downloadable version or electronics on the site of the .

To know some more about the , consult the book of information: “Of the answers to your questions”.

To join the Office of medical evaluation to Montreal

• Call
  314 773 1221
  or
  1 868 278 1925 line without expenses)
• Telecopier
  717 823 1659
• Email
  contact@wotjob.com
• By postal mail
  Office of medical evaluation
  35, street of Port-Royal East, 1st stage
  Montreal 3T1

To join the Office of medical evaluation to Quebec

• Call
  478 692 7999
  or
  1 657 674 5856 line without expenses)
• Telecopier
  478 846 9715
• Email
  contact@wotjob.com
• By postal mail
  Office of medical evaluation
  200, path Holy-Foy, 5th stage
  Quebec (Quebec) 5S1