If organizations merely address legalities in their contracts with physicians and fail to define expectations, they almost guarantee that the...Read More »
Make sure that you are covering all of the bases in your orientation program: Use comprehensive checklists detailing new hospitalists’ first days on the job. They should be specific, down to the detail of naming the individual who will tour the new physician through the facility on day one, for...
This sample form is used for surveying new hospitalists. This form may be administered to the new hospitalists by the hospitalist program director, medical director, or other appropriate medical staff leader in a one-on-one meeting approximately six to 10 weeks after the physician’s start date...
The job postings in hospitalist-targeted publications provide ample anecdotal evidence that the demand for hospitalists outweighs the supply. As a...Read More »
All practitioners—employed or not—are to be held to the same minimally defined medical staff standards for clinical care, professionalism,...Read More »
Following a fair and thorough investigation, the medical staff in your hospital has determined a physician has clinical performance issues and has...Read More »
According to the Federation of State Medical Board’s biennial census, there were nearly 1 million licensed physicians in the United States in 2018...Read More »
