If you’re tasked with assessing and confirming the competence of practitioners in an ambulatory setting, practitioners with a narrow and/or specialized focus, or single practitioners in a specialty, you know these practice settings present unique challenges. But help is here! Tune in August 27...
Thousands of foreign-trained immigrant physicians are living in the United States with lifesaving skills that are going unused because they stumbled over one of the many hurdles in the path toward becoming a licensed physician here.
What are the major issues in your medical staff services department? Are new credentialing challenges popping up, or are you seeking solutions to familiar problems? What tools and resources do you need to help you do your job? Even if your department is functioning smoothly, I hope you’ll take a...
Preliminary investigations carried out by Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) police have revealed that a citizen from Yemen, who was arrested in Jeddah last week, had forged a medical diploma and practiced at a well-known private hospital in the city, where he made several medical errors that resulted in...
Ideally, a more comprehensive drug testing policy that included preemployment and random drug testing would be built into the medical staff bylaws as part of the privileging and credentialing process, according to the authors of an April article in the Journal of the American Medical...
A Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) team is studying the details and implications of interstate compacts for physician licensure. These compacts could streamline licensing procedures for physicians who seek to practice in more than one state—possibly simplifying license verification in...
