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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Medical Staff Briefings

presented on August 29, 2006

The JCAHO has released its prepublication 2007 Medical Staff standards including a set of six general competencies designed to allow organized medical staffs to create a more comprehensive evaluation of a physician’s professional practice.

Listen to the audioconference, General Competencies in the 2007 JCAHO Credentialing Standards: A Major Change in Expectations. During this 90 minute show, our expert speakers will discuss why there's a new focus on general competencies and a step-by-step approach to responding to the new standards.

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to

1. Identify the key differences between the 2006 and 2007 JCAHO credentialing standards
2. Recognize the new focus areas of General Competencies
3. State the need for a comprehensive framework for physician performance
4. Identify best practices for implementing the General Competencies in credentialing and privileging by using a 4 step approach
5. Identify methods to measure general competencies

AGENDA

• The 2007 Credentialing Standards: What's changed
• Why the new focus on General Competencies?
• Why do we need a comprehensive framework for physician performance?
  • Do we need a differential diagnosis of physician performance?
  • The Performance Pyramid
  • Framework examples: ACGME and the Performance Pyramid
  • Crosswalk between ACGME and the Performance Pyramid frameworks
• The ACGME and General Competencies: Why were they created? What can be learned from them?
• The General Competencies: What are they? How can medical staffs measure them?
• Is this about complying with a standard or doing a better job of peer review?
• A step by step approach to responding to the new standards
  • Step 1: Select a framework for evaluating and improving physician performance
  • Step 2: Educate your medical staff to cultivate buy in for your framework
  • Step 3: Define indicators for each competency category
  • Step 4: Design physician performance feedback reports based on your competency framework
• Q&A session

Featured speakers

Robert Marder, MD does extensive speaking and consulting with hospitals and healthcare systems throughout the country in the areas of hospital and medical staff performance improvement, peer review, patient safety/error reduction, medical staff development and case management.

Richard A. Sheff, MD serves as chairman and executive director for the Greeley Company. He is a leading faculty member for Greeley's national seminars and provides educational and consulting services in a wide range of areas including governance, hospital and medical staff performance improvement, managing poor quality and disruptive physicians, patient safety and error reduction, credentialing, medical staff effectiveness and redesign, medical staff leadership development, strategic planning, and regulatory compliance.

PROGRAM MATERIALS:

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