Your facility’s medical staff bylaws or policies must outline the process for access to the credentials file. The credentials file is the property of the hospital and must be maintained with strictest confidence and security. The files must be maintained by the designated agent of the...
If your organization is struggling with where to place a practitioner in one of your medical staff categories, you either have too few or too many medical staff categories. Consider arranging your medical staff categories into these four common categories.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 9
The latest addition to St. Jude Medical Center's psychiatry department isn't your run-of-the-mill medical staff recruit. Standing four feet tall atop a pair of razor-thin wheels, VGo is a remote-controlled telemedicine robot that has played the middleman between patients in the Fullerton,...
Most medical staffs and healthcare organizations have found it challenging to find physicians willing and available to proctor colleagues. In hospital settings, many medical staffs overcome these barriers by making proctoring an obligation of staff membership. Usually, this is facilitated by a...
More than 16,500 students, residents, and physicians have joined a nationwide campaign calling on the National Board of Medical Examiners to replace the Step 2 Clinical Skills exam with one that is less of a financial burden. The exam is offered at five sites nationwide and tests the students’...
Although it seems like the better option from a bookkeeping standpoint, revising all of your bylaws at once can cause an uproar and pushback from the medical staff. This is for two reasons:
It is too much information for busy medical staff members to read and digest, so they won't