Most credentialing work is considered a peer review activity performed by the medical staff and governing board. As a result, state laws generally grant some amount of peer review protection to those parts of a particular credentials file that are acted upon by medical staff committees or the...
Young physicians may struggle to properly plan for their retirements due to the fact that they begin their careers later than most other professions, tend to carry more in student loans, and often lack the free time to dedicate to financial planning. AMA Insurance recently published a...
When granting temporary privileges, organizations should have policies that clearly outline their pre-established criteria. Although expediting the process is important, MSPs must ensure that each practitioner’s current clinical competence is verified to protect patient safety and avoid...
The CRC team hears it often--dollars for education continue to dwindle. We know that often those in the medical staff services field have to choose only one conference a year to attend, or have to submit a budget and proposal to attend educational opportunities in the upcoming year. Let us make...
"For too long the medical profession has neglected the study of its own personnel and focused on patient care."
- Manit Arora, a surgeon and lecturer at University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and University of Queensland in Brisbane discusses burnout among...
Frequently, emergency and disaster privileges are confused. Emergency privileges are those privileges that the medical staff has granted to existing members to do whatever is necessary (within the scope of each practitioner’s license) to save the life, limb, or organ of a patient. Typically, the...
