A record number of medical school students and graduates applied for residency positions this year, according to the National Resident Matching Program. More than 37,000 applicants competed for 33,167 positions. The number of first-year positions also hit a new record of 30,232, nearly 1,400...
Because peer review is a medical staff–led initiative, the specific process varies between organizations. At our hospital, when a practitioner’s performance in a particular case raises concerns, the peer review coordinator (who has a clinical background) receives an initial request for peer...
Shortly after the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016, Orlando Health hospital reported that some of the first people to contact them were representatives from foreign consulates. Due to its unique location and proximity to Disney World, Universal Studios, and Sea World it was highly...
“Peer-to-peer review helps hospitals to discuss their problems in a safe environment, when it isn’t a crisis. We should strive for a day when a hospitals voluntarily and routinely take part in these exercises.”
The Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) is proud to present our membership community with nine noteworthy tools and forms that have been contributed by your peers in the trenches and evaluated by the accomplished experts on our...
Citing reduced wait times and lower costs, a recent Ernst & Young survey of nearly 2,500 consumers found that more than 50% reported being comfortable contacting their physicians digitally and already use available technology to do so.
“You need to convince leaders that a dimension of culture needs to change at the top of the house before it really can change. And to do that, the organizational science would say you need a stimulus that upsets the status quo.”
The hospitalist profession has taken the healthcare industry by storm over the past 20 years as the fastest-growing specialty in the history of American medicine. The role of the hospitalist continues to emerge through different specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine,...
What would you like to see included in the following book: The Credentialing Resource Center’s Top Tools and Forms of 2018. This book would be a compilation of the CRC expert community’s favorite field-sourced materials, complete with helpful commentary on each chosen...
