By the time a physician leader becomes the president of the medical staff, he or she has likely attended countless meetings-too many to remember. The new leader might have even chaired or facilitated some of those meetings. However, many have chaired such meetings without first being taught how...
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Following up after meetings is equally important as the meeting itself. Follow-up allows you an opportunity to interact one-on-one with meeting attendees to ensure all communication channels are open, attendees know what is require of them, and all project timeframes are understood.
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Lawsuits around proctoring generally come from two aggrieved parties: physicians unhappy with the assessments made by a proctor and patients who feel that they were injured as a result of improper or inadequate proctoring.
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In today's complex health care environment, it is increasingly difficult to find physicians willing to take on the responsibilities of medical staff leadership. However, it is important, now more than ever, to recruit, educate, train, and retain...
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A major key to success is carefully matching each assigned task to a person with the skills and qualifications needed to accomplish the task. Empowerment means that when responsibility for accomplishing a task is delegated to a person, the authority to accomplish the task is also delegated.
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Once leader has earned the respect and trust of colleagues and coworkers, he or she should take care to preserve that respect and trust. Specially avoid the following five common mistakes:
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 27
Dear Medical Staff Leader,
Take a moment. You've earned it!
This morning, like most other mornings, you awoke at 5:30 a.m. and began to mentally and physically prepare for your jammed-packed day. Your mind quickly shuffled through the many things on your schedule: rounds, a medical...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 8, Issue 26
Dear medical staff leader:
Truly effective medical staffs must govern themselves, credential and privilege new practitioners, and monitor the quality of care provided by these practitioners.
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Your confidentiality policy should address how MSPs obtain approvals and recommendations. If a department chair or other committee member can't come to the medical staff services office to review the files, do not simply drop the files off, unattended, at their office.
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