Seminars

PCS: Professional Certificate Series

Earning Your PCS Why PCS? As the overall business environment evolves and becomes more competitive, professionals are increasingly recognizing the need for a diversified background and multi-disciplined approach to solving business problems. This is especially true in the fields of human resources, benefits, risk management, insurance and health care.

The IEA's Professional Certificate Series in Risk and Integrated Benefits Management is intended to provide you with this diversified education. It takes advantage of a wide range of semester courses, seminars and self-study learning and enables you to build a curriculum that addresses your specific interests or areas where previous experience is lacking.

Requirements
In order to earn the PCS "Certificate of Achievement", you must complete 7 of the 9 required core programs along with 3 elective offerings in your area of interest or specialization.

You may begin the series with any one of the required core programs and will have 4 years to complete the entire course of study.

Retroactive Credit Provision
The IEA recognizes that some of you might have already completed one or more of the listed programs. Individuals having completed any of the required or elective programs within a prior two year period will receive retroactive credit.

Enrollment
To request a PCS enrollment form, simply call 1-800-655-4432 (press 1) or indicate your order as "PCS enrollment form" (no cost or class number needed) when you complete the registration form.

Participants
The PCS is designed to address the varied needs of diverse groups of individuals like you involved in employee issues either within your organization or as a service provider. Professionals included (but not limited to) are:

• Human Resources
• Safety/Loss Control/Ergonomics
• Insurance Brokers & Consultants
• Managed Care
• Competitive Advantages
• Valuable, current information
• Enhanced career opportunities
• Greater working knowledge of the benefits and insurance environments
• Workers' Compensation Claims
• Insurance
• Risk Management
• Health Care Benefits
• Exposure and cross-training
• Improved decision-making skill and ability
• Continuing education credits

Professional Certificate Series Required Core Programs

You must complete seven (7) of the nine (9) required programs

• Workers' Compensation 101 Employer Issues
• Employment Liability..The Lawsuit of Choice for the 21st Century
• Group Health Insurance 101
• Disability 101: Non-Occupational Issues
• Employee Benefits 101
• Managed Care
• Ergonomics and Loss Control Management
• Human Resources 101
• Introduction to Risk Management

Professional Certificate Series Elective Programs

You must complete three (3) elective programs from the following list of seminars and self-study offerings.

• Advanced Managed Care
• Workers' Compensation for Nurses
• Early Return to Work

Self-Study Topics
(NOTE: for credit from self-study courses, participants must successfully pass the written examination).

• Disability Income Insurance
• Health Basics
• Introduction to Group Insurance
• Social Security and Medicare
• Managed Care Strategies
• Principles of Health Disability
• Medicare & Medigap Insurance
• Workers' Compensation & 24 Hour Care
• CTQ California Long Term Care
• Understanding IRAs and 401 K Plans