Being rude can affect medical performance and patient care, according to a study conducted by Tel Aviv University. Twenty-four Neonatal Intensive Care Unit teams from hospitals around Israel participated in a simulation exercise involving a premature infant suffering from necrotizing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
A study in Academic Medicine found that students in an accelerated baccalaureate-MD program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had similar academic performance outcomes as their peers not in the accelerated program.
Students in the accelerated program attend...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The University of Utah Health Care is crediting a program that provides the cost of doing business for helping it to reduce its expenses over the past few year. While other academic hospitals in the area have seen costs increase an average of 2.9%, the University of Utah has had its costs...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 36
The following steps are essential to successfully developing and implementing core privileges in any organization. The assumptions in all the steps are that medical staff leaders within your organization have already examined existing privileging practices and recognize the dilemmas associated...
