"Potential responses to growing shortages of obstetric providers could include changing call schedules, lowering barriers to reimbursement and credentialing,
Texas is the latest state to pass legislation banning its state medical board from requiring Maintenance of Certification (MOC) as a requirement for licensure.
An effective prescreen process helps to ensure that nonviable candidates for employment never make it to first base. It also helps to minimize the risk of throwing open the door to due process if an application to the medical staff is offered and then denied after you have formally started to...
"We spend all of our time in medical school and residency and fellowship learning clinical skills and content and we don't spend a lot of time developing our emotional intelligence, our narrative competence, our ability to get a history from someone that is authentic to who that person is, but...
Since 2000, many hospitals have changed their peer review approach, with estimates that more than 50% now use the multispecialty model. Having assisted many organizations with this transformation, I wanted to find out whether these efforts were useful and sustainable.