A teenager was caught posing as a physician for a month in the St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to police in that city. Police received a call on January 13 about a juvenile who was in the hospital and telling people he was a physician; a security guard...
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has announced that the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) are now ACGME member organizations. The measure took effect January 1.
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Credentials Verification Organizations (CVOs) perform National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) queries as part of the credentialing process. CVOs have special responsibilities to the NPDB, according to the latest Data Bank News release. A CVO may be registered with the Data Bank either...
The recent revelation that a physician in Maryland had been practicing for nearly two decades in the state despite being convicted of rape has brought renewed attention to the issue of whether state medical boards should require criminal background checks for physicians.
