A growing number of physicians are working well beyond the traditional retirement age, leading health systems to create policies to test the physical, cognitive, and clinical skills of its surgeons. In 2014, there were nearly 100,000 physicians in their 70s still practicing, up 2% from 2012,...
In most cases, it is useful but not required to have a specialty-to-specialty match. There are many observations regarding clinical practice that doctors from a wide range of specialties can accurately make. Did the observed practitioner exhibit adequate history and physical skills, compose a...
Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) policy and all its attendant protections?
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Today’s free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware, that upholds professional practice evaluation as one landmark in the greater quality landscape.
The frequency with which a medical staff services department or quality department distributes OPPE reports depends on its accreditor’s specifications for the review cycle. For example, The Joint Commission requires organizations to perform OPPE more frequently than once per year to meet its...
