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Send us your National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week photos

Credentialing Resource Center Connection , October 29, 2009

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Dear readers,

Get those cameras ready! Next week is National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week, and we want to see how you celebrate. Whether you’re planning on hosting a party with your state medical staff services association or celebrating with coworkers at an in-office reception, send us your snap shots, and we’ll post them on the Credentialing Resource Center blog.

Although this year’s official recognition week lasts from November 1-7, it’s important for others in your organization to understand the valuable role you play year round. This understanding can help medical staff members work with you more efficiently and can help clarify your job description, potentially elevating your salary.

The following tips can help others in your organization gain a better understanding of your role.

If your medical staff services department has a Web page, include a Q&A section about the role of the MSP. Use the Web site to clarify that the competency burden remains on applicants during the credentialing process, not on MSPs or the medical staff leaders. You can also include contact information and a list of upcoming meetings. This information is especially helpful to recent graduates and new medical staff leaders who are less familiar with the medical staff services department

Hold periodic meetings with the human resources department and recruitment office. These opportunities will allow you to explain your role and clarify questions they may have about your responsibilities. For example, this is an ideal forum to explain the reasons why the human resources department should process clinical assistants, but not advance practice professionals. It’s also an opportunity to describe the credentialing process to physician recruiters so they have a better understanding of why the medical staff can’t process a new applicant as quickly as they’d like.

Let National Medical Staff Services Awareness Week be your springboard for advocating for your role and showcasing your talents year round.

Sincerely,
Emily Berry
Associate Editor

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