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.
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
One of the most common situations that causes attribution difficulties is when care of a patient is handed off to multiple practitioners. Often, staff will list in the medical record the name of the physician who admitted the patient; however, throughout the patient's stay, the record is not...
A lot of medical staff bylaws restrict board certification to American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its member boards—again, sometimes unintentionally. Doing so blocks physicians certified by osteopathic boards, non-U.S. boards, and any new boards created not under ABMS.
