Longitudinal assessment may be the way to address the other component of Maintenance of Certification (MOC), that has perhaps caused the most uproar from physicians, is the high-stakes exam, which diplomates take every 10 years. Many physicians argue that MOC does not test them on what they...
According to 2017 statistics courtesy of the Association of American Medical Colleges, women currently represent 50.7% of the 21,000 medical school enrollees. In fact, the number of women applying to medical school has risen by more than 9% since 2015, compared to the 2.3% decline in male...
What if the employment agreement doesn't have co-terminus language about termination/privileges? How does the medical staff services department (MSSD) terminate the physician's privileges? If there is no co-terminus language, the formerly employed physician will retain medical staff membership...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Once driven exclusively by insurance carriers, provider enrollment features ever-more prominently in healthcare institutions’ service portfolios and under MSPs’ purviews. Of the nearly 1,000 respondents to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey, 22.3% work in departments that carry out both medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 10
Beyond the functional similarities, provider enrollment and medical staff services also share unlikely career trajectories and challenges, as demonstrated by the write-in responses to the 2017 MSP Salary Survey highlighted in the following sections.
