Practice makes perfect: Physician refresher/re-entry courses
Medical Staff Briefing, September 1, 2008
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A long-standing cardiologist on the medical staff hasn’t been performing up to par. The chair of the cardiology department meets with the physician and explains which areas the medical staff’s peer review committee has determined the physician needs to improve. What’s next?
“It is different everywhere you go,” says Kathy Matzka, CPMSM, CPCS, a medical staff consultant in Lebanon, IL. Many times, Matzka explains, the responsibility of finding appropriate resources for physicians who have been deemed deficient in certain areas falls to the medical staff office or to the physicians.
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