Organizations should proactively identify how they will address low- or no-volume practitioners, both at initial appointment and reappointment, to ensure that they are extending privileges only to individuals who can demonstrate current clinical competence. If an applicant has little to no...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
A Medscape survey of more than 3,000 female physicians found that 53% held a leadership position. Of those in leadership positions, 40% said their work and personal lives were balanced and 57% said their work gets in the way of their personal lives. However, 72% said they were very or somewhat...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
A study in Academic Medicine found that students in an accelerated baccalaureate-MD program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had similar academic performance outcomes as their peers not in the accelerated program.
Students in the accelerated program attend...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 9
Cardiovascular technologists are advanced practice professionals who perform diagnostic examinations and therapeutic interventions on the heart and/or blood vessels at the request or under direction of a physician (MD or DO), in accordance with state and federal regulations, in one or more of...
Unprofessional or abusive behavior by residency program faculty toward residents has the capacity to disrupt an entire program if left unaddressed. Unfortunately, for any number of reasons, some programs allow this disruptive behavior to persist, leaving residents to shoulder the burden....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 34
“At any given time, there are always spot shortages both by location and specialty. But the claim of an impending doctor shortage is 15 years old. The predicted shortages of 15 years ago, 10 years ago and five years ago haven't manifested. We know from past experience, when residency positions...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 32
In response to the growing concern of physician burnout, the AMA’s STEPS Forward website, which provides free online modules to help physicians revitalize their practices, outlined seven steps physicians can take to measure and respond to burnout among their colleagues.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 31
Starting in October, 2,592 hospitals will receive lower payments for Medicare patients due to penalties for high rates of readmissions, according to Kaiser Health News. The hospitals will lose a combined $420 million through the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, which was created by the...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 8
CMS states that temporary privileges may be granted as allowed by state law, medical staff bylaws, and rules and regulations. The Joint Commission is more prescriptive than CMS in its standards for granting temporary privileges, specifying the reasons they may be granted, and the requirement for...
