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Ask the expert: How should proctoring results be transmitted within the medical staff organization?

Credentialing Resource Center Connection, July 5, 2007

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Proctoring results should be treated in the same manner as other peer review findings: They should be added to the physician's peer review file and communicated to the committee that requested that the proctoring be undertaken. Where the results are used to make a recommendation to another medical staff committee or the board, the proctor's findings can be made available to that committee. Where the proctoring results will be used to support collegial intervention to improve performance, the results may be reviewed and used by an individual duly authorized by a peer review committee to undertake the intervention. This individual will typically be a medical staff officer, department chair, or hospital vice president of medical affairs (VPMA).

This week's question is brought to you by HCPro's Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Practical Approaches to Verifying Physician Competence, by Robert J. Marder, MD; Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS; and Todd Sagin, MD, JD. For more information, click here.

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