Checking diploma validity is important
Ambulatory Safety Monitor, September 28, 2006
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When credentialing a new physician, you may think that a copy of a physician's medical school diploma suffices as evidence of graduation. But as Carol Fiske-Boumbouras, CMSC, medical staff coordinator with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Monroeville (PA) Surgery Center learned in a JCAHO survey several years ago, surveyors will not accept this as proof.
"Anyone can go and get a diploma copied and made up-it doesn't mean that they ever went to that school," Fiske-Boumbouras says. You must get a letter from the candidate's medical school stating that the applicant graduated.
This tip was adapted from Briefings on Ambulatory Accreditation, a monthly publication that reports on the activities of ambulatory care accreditors the JCAHO and the AAAHC. Click here for more information or to subscribe.
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