Texas is the latest state to pass legislation banning its state medical board from requiring Maintenance of Certification (MOC) as a requirement for licensure.
An effective prescreen process helps to ensure that nonviable candidates for employment never make it to first base. It also helps to minimize the risk of throwing open the door to due process if an application to the medical staff is offered and then denied after you have formally started to...
"We spend all of our time in medical school and residency and fellowship learning clinical skills and content and we don't spend a lot of time developing our emotional intelligence, our narrative competence, our ability to get a history from someone that is authentic to who that person is, but...
Since 2000, many hospitals have changed their peer review approach, with estimates that more than 50% now use the multispecialty model. Having assisted many organizations with this transformation, I wanted to find out whether these efforts were useful and sustainable.
The medical staff services profession is on the move, according to more than 600 early responses to HCPro’s 2017 MSP Salary Survey, which closes later this month.
“Physicians have more control over our lifestyles than we believe. We may feel stuck, trapped in situations we don’t like, but in truth, most of us have the financial and emotional resources to change our lives into something better.”
To address the shortage of physicians in Missouri, a recently passed bill would ease the qualifications for medical school graduates to practice in the state. The bill, which is awaiting the governor’s signature, would allow medical school graduates to apply for assistant physician licenses.
