Val Jones, MD, founder and CEO of Better Health, summarized some interesting field research about locum tenens in a KevinMD blog earlier this week. Apparently there’s no love lost between hospital executives and...
With the restructuring of the Step 3 examination in 2014, the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) program will no longer require examinees to apply for Step 3 under the eligibility requirements of a specific medical licensing authority. Other Step 3 eligibility requirements—including a...
Val Jones, MD, recently spoke with hospital executives (some of whom were physicians) about the overall process of hiring and managing temporary physicians. “What I heard wasn’t pretty,” Jones wrote on the KevinMD website. “I thought I’d summarize their opinions in the form of a mock...
With the temporary federal budget deal ending the 16-day government shutdown, state and federal officials have some catching up to do to make up for time lost. At the state level, some health departments will be dealing with a backlog of federal inspections postponed during the shutdown. Some...
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
During any screening test, there is a chance of so-called overdiagnosis—finding something that looks like cancer but isn’t, or a cancer that’s so small and slow-growing it would never cause a problem. In those cases, patients may get unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, radiation, or drugs that...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
A resident-led quality improvement incentive program significantly reduced unnecessary laboratory tests at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. In one year of study, neurosurgical trainees found a 47% reduction in testing, which led to a savings of $1.7 million in billable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 14, Issue 42
The Leapfrog Group’s fourth safety report card for general acute care hospitals, released Wednesday, shows little overall improvement in how well providers are preventing patient harm. A total of 2,539 hospitals were graded on 15 structural measures, such as whether the hospital has a full-time...
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is asking for comments on proposed standards for its Program for Maintenance of Certification (MOC). These standards will provide a framework for member boards to use when developing their programs for MOC while allowing the flexibility to tailor...
An initiative to streamline multistate medical licensure for physicians is making progress, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) announced earlier this month. A newly appointed drafting team will use eight key consensus principles to shape the new system, which calls for a formal...
