Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Physician Competency
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
If you read news reports of the troubled brachytherapy program at the Philadelphia VA Medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
Perception data differ from clinical data in that it is based on how others view our performance in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 29, 2009
Eighty-two percent of all hospitals whose policies require recertification allow surgeons and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
At the age of 65, practitioners shall complete an annual examination that addresses their physical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, September 23, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
Putting together a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) is a useful change management strategy...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Although increased medical school enrollment will help meet future healthcare needs, several...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The good old days when physicians could take a tax-deductible vacation disguised as continuing...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The Association of American Medical Colleges has recommended a 30% increase in total medical school...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 31, July 29, 2009
Medical staffs seldom have a policy in place to guide the re-entry process for physicians who have...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Measuring the competence of advanced practice professionals, such as nurse practitioners and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
A report published in the February Pediatrics, reveals that only 34% of state licensing boards...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
I don’t know that there’s a number that would take care of each and every concern that...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 20, May 20, 2009
Communicating reference information about physicians has always been a challenge for medical staff...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 19, May 13, 2009
Temporary privileges may be granted for up to 120 calendar days when a practitioner applying for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
The most practical approach is to distribute feedback reports every six months. This provides...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Medical staff leaders are often daunted at the prospect of engaging and paying outside peer...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
Fram, an after-market automotive parts manufacturer, once made a car care commercial that made this...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
Clinical observers are a category of practitioners that organizations tend to overlook. It is...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Today, many MCOs do not require practitioners to hold clinical privileges or be on the medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Many people are not aware that former heavy-weight boxing champion George Foreman has 10...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 12, March 25, 2009
Your medical staff should have a policy that places the burden on the applicant to prove his or her...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Do you get confused between a sanction and probation? Reprimand and warning? Greeley expert...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
More medical groups are offering part-time schedules or decreased responsibilities to keep veteran...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
When defining indicators to measure physician competence, medical staffs have stumbled on the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Once the medical staff services department receives a completed application from a physician and...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
Dr. Anna Pou, who stayed with her patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans for several...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
Whether a decision is considered a "restriction" is sometimes in the eye of the beholder...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 4, January 28, 2009
This five-part series, authored by Jonathan Burroughs, MD, MBA, CMSL, senior consultant with The...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, if a physician requests a hearing, he or she must be...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
When the Joint Commission introduced focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE), it greatly...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
In 2007, The Joint Commission gave hospital medical staffs a gift: a framework to measure quality...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
It is often most practical for the medical executive committee to assign the duty of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
With the 2009 Joint Commission leadership standards calling for organizations to create a culture...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 17, 2008
External peer review isn’t appropriate for all situations, but at times, it can be the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 10, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, shares why M&M conferences are...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
When defining physician competency measures, make sure physicians are involved. Afterall, if...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
Although peer review may seem like it would be considered perception data, our experts say...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, November 5, 2008
Last week, we defined and described the purpose of a precautionary suspension. This week, we...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
If the Florida Supreme Court’s March decision to make all physician peer review information...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 29, 2008
Many hospitals have adopted the term precautionary suspension to better reflect the nature of a...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 10, 2008
We all know that disruptive physician behavior creates a hostile work environment, but now there's...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 8, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Editor's note: This article is the last in our series aimed at providing medical staffs with...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 10, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, shares a case study from a new book he co-authored with Jonathan H...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
Editor's note: In the August MSB, we saw how the University of Pennsylvania Health System assesses...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
A long-standing cardiologist on the medical staff hasn't been performing up to par. The chair of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2008
The recent Kadlec decision has medical staff offices (MSO) nationwide wondering how to prevent a...