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Tip of the week: Avoid using a one-size-fits-all FPPE process

Medical Staff Leader Connection, August 20, 2008

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Although a one-size-fits-all approach to FPPE may make your policy simpler, it creates unnecessary work for physicians who don’t require as much review. Hospitals should develop FPPE plans to accommodate individual situations, but all FPPEs should have the same goal: to provide the medical staff with the information it needs to ensure the competency of the physician under review. For example, a newly trained resident who has been closely monitored over his or her training period may not require the same amount of proctoring that a physician who is coming off a five-year sabbatical and has not provided any patient care would require. These physicians clearly require different levels of proctoring.

This week’s tip is excerpted from Measuring Physician Competency, Second Edition by Robert Marder, MD, CMSL; Mark Smith, MD, MBA, CMSL; Marla Smith, MHSA; and Vicky Searcy, CPMSM.

 



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