Once the OPPE/FPPE program is fully designed and implemented, an oversight committee must ensure that the various steps of the process occur as...Read More »
A robust peer review process often hinges on collaboration among a variety of disciplines. Specific participants are selected according to medical...Read More »
Regulators continue to put pressure on hospitals to ensure physician competence through an effective peer review process. Medical staff leaders are charged with organizing and managing a robust approach to peer review. This policy outlines one approach to the challenge of medical staff peer...
Technology now allows the possibility of teleproctoring, whereby a proctor can directly observe another practitioner in real time without being...Read More »
It is common to say, “Let’s train someone by having them do something they have never done before so they get experience.” I guess we come from...Read More »
Increasingly, organizations are implementing policies for evaluating older members of the medical staff—often for practitioners at age 70, or...Read More »
When the medical staff asks a department chair to assign physician proctors for a newly appointed medical staff member, he or she should delegate...Read More »
This policy provides for the confidentiality of records maintained by the Hospital medical staff and medical staff office (MSO). This includes the minutes of all medical staff committees and all correspondence between medical staff leaders and medical staff personnel and individual members of...
