In February 2014, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine entered into an agreement to transform the accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME)...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 1
Dermatologists are physicians who specialize in evaluating and managing adults and children with benign and malignant conditions and disorders of the skin, hair, nails, and adjacent mucous membranes, according to the American Board of Dermatology (ABD).
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 50
“The furor over Maintenance of Certification is a self-inflicted distraction by our medical leaders. We are wasting time, resources (and valuable New York Times op-ed space) fighting among ourselves when we should be advocating together to improve our health system.”
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 49
“Once upon a time, in a medical school far far away, I was taught that my sacred oath and calling was to the patient. The one patient. That has not changed. What I see now, what all doctors must understand, is that the individual patient, that one patient, that precious, irreplaceable...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 48
“[L]ook forward at the innovations that have come to medicine that are helpful. Be grateful for the improvements in treatment for many diseases that used to have no hope.”
- Starla Fitch, MD, discusses the benefits of technology to the practice of medicine...
Clinical contracts present numerous challenges for a hospital and its medical staff, which begin even before the contract is executed. The relative complexities of this process will vary, given the specific service to be performed...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 12
It's been said that you can't manage what you can't measure. Therefore, time management starts with time measurement. For MSPs, logging tasks and the time devoted to each can also help others understand just what happens in the medical staff services department.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (the "Court") granted a health system's motion for summary judgment, dismissing a former employee-physician's claims that she was placed on leave and terminated in violation of the Americans with...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 47
"Training another doctor… isn't cheap—isn't cheap for the individual doing the training, isn't cheap for the institution providing the education, and ultimately isn't cheap for the health system. Because the more doctors we have, the more activity there will be."
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Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 46
"It doesn’t take a rocket scientist—or a malpractice attorney—to figure out that most patients who have had a bad experience are not looking for compensation or 'revenge.' They are looking for compassion and for validation."
