This free resource provides sample job descriptions for medical staff president, medical staff vice president/president elect, and immediate past president.

Medical Staff Talk is now the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) Forums. It’s all the shop talk and sample swapping you’ve come to expect and a more robust platform to boot. 

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January 2015 - Analysis includes:

  • The case for criminal background checks for physicians
  • Managing temporary and locum tenens privileges
  • New Jersey federal court dismisses surgeon's discrimination claims
  • The Year in Review - 2014 story index

This is a sample core privilege form for dermatology. The Credentialing Resource Center website houses over 100 criteria-based core privilege forms for physicians and advanced practice professionals.

Today's free resource is a combined OPPE/FPPE policy used at Doctors Hospital of Manteca, in Manteca, California. This form and many others can be found in The FPPE Toolbox: Field-Tested Documents for Credentialing, Competency, and Compliance, Second Edition, by Juli Maxworthy...

Read the September 2015 issue of Medical Staff Briefing Topics covered include:

  • Sample audit forms: Lisa Kuklinski, BBA, CPMSM, CPCS, shares her forms for auditing credentials files. As she explains, these forms can be modified for groups on your medical staff.
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As influential physicians increasingly recognize the value of their non-physician partners, the presence and roles of APPs in hospitals are undergoing tremendous growth. Furthermore, today’s APPs are often eager to expand their knowledge, skill base, and scope of practice, and many disciplines...

Proctors may not know what information they need to collect or report. To help proctors succeed, give them a standardized form to complete when observing another physician. Today’s free resource is a summary focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) monitoring form. This form is completed...

Although OPPE is not an easy task to accomplish, a strong foundation in the underlying principles and current expectations can prime those involved in the process for success. Take this free quiz to evaluate and strengthen your mastery of the OPPE fundamentals. 

Today’s free resource comes from Verify and Comply, Sixth Edition. This book includes credentialing and medical staff standards and regulations for the most popular regulators and accreditors in an easy-to-navigate manual. The free resource outlines the standards for...

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