Personal Injury Scheme Evaluation - PDM1168

This course delves into the performance evaluation of Personal Injury Schemes, focusing on key statistics and outcomes in this field. Students will be introduced to best practice strategies on assessing scheme financial performance, client recovery and work outcomes. The course will explore determinants of scheme performance,e and industry experts will share their knowledge on how to manage scheme performance and respond to evaluations.

The centrepiece of this course is the three-day “Intensive” teaching period. During the intensive, you will have an unmatched opportunity to foster new professional networks with other participants, course presenters and other insurance industry experts via the intensive that fosters critical thought and robust discussion.

Who should attend

This course would be ideal for anyone interested in learning more about performance evaluation in Personal Injury Schemes across Australia, New Zealand and beyond, with a view to improving their ability to operate in and influence the success of schemes.

What you will learn

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

  • Describe the actuarial valuation process including approaches to valuation and the use of valuation in scheme management.
  • Describe evidence-based approaches to measuring the outcomes and experiences of injured people in personal injury schemes.
  • Explain the key parameters affecting scheme performance including scheme operations, strategic, social and environmental considerations.
  • Critique approaches to evaluating the performance of personal injury schemes.
  • Design scheme evaluation frameworks, including appropriate balance between scheme objectives, reporting requirements and stakeholder needs.
  • Identify emerging developments in scheme evaluation and performance measurement.

Program structure

  • Topic 1: Scheme Evaluation
  • Topic 2: Key Statistics and Performance
  • Topic 3: Financial Evaluation I: Actuarial Valuation
  • Topic 4: Financial Evaluation II: Underwriting, Pricing and Premium Setting
  • Topic 5: Assessing Client Outcomes
  • Topic 6: Managing Scheme Performance and Responding to Evaluations
  • Topic 7: Emerging Issues Impacting Scheme Evaluation and Performance

Accelerate your qualification

Eligible participants who complete the micro-credential can receive 6 credit points of unspecified credit towards the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma of Personal Injury Management, Master of Public Health/Master of Occupational Health.

Note: Successful completion of a micro-credential does not guarantee admission into an award course. Prospective students must meet the eligibility and admission requirements for the award course. A micro-credential can only be used as credit towards a single degree on one occasion, and is valid for 7 years.

For more details please email pgradenq@monash.edu or shortcourses.depm@monash.edu.

Professor Alex Collie

Professor (Research), Health Systems Services & Policy

Alex Collie

Professor Collie is Director of the Healthy Working Lives Research Group and the Division of Health Systems, Services and Policy in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow; President of the Scientific Committee on Work Disability Prevention for the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH); a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Professor Collie is an applied public health and social policy scholar. His research and teaching focus on work injury rehabilitation, occupational health and social protection schemes for personal injury. He leads a multidisciplinary, mixed methods research program set in Australian and international personal injury schemes such as workers’ compensation, motor vehicle crash compensation and disability insurance.

He is currently Primary Chief Investigator on the ARC funded Worker Voice project, using participatory modelling techniques to re-imagine workers' compensation scheme design in Australia. He is also a Chief Investigator on the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Improving Health After Compensable Injury - developing evidence to support rehabilitation after injury in motor vehicle crash; and Primary Chief Investigator on the TRANSITIONS data linkage study - characterising the transitions of workers with long term health condition between state and commonwealth social protection systems.

In addition to leading a large collaborative research program, Alex is also course co-ordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Personal Injury Management in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash.

Dr Michael Di Donato

Research Fellow, Health Systems Services & Policy

Michael Di Donato

Dr Michael Di Donato is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Healthy Working Lives Research Group at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. His doctoral studies explored the interaction between income support systems and healthcare for workers with low back pain.

Dr Di Donato’s research seeks to understand the impact of policy changes on healthcare service use and social welfare outcomes in compensated workers, to create readily reportable indicators of quality of care delivered to workers with low back pain, and continue development of a large scale health service research database. His areas of interest include social welfare and income support systems, healthcare delivery and quality for low back pain, and how compensation system policy influences worker disability and recovery.

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