Credentialing Resource Center Connection

In this week’s column, Emily Berry, associate editor, offers tips for improving your locum tenens strategies.

Some state medical boards keep their practitioner investigations confidential, and the public only learns about them after an adverse outcome, if there is one. However, the Washington State Department of Health and the OB-GYN it’s investigating have publicly discussed the case, giving medical staffs and the general public unique insight on the process.

In the November issue of Briefings on Credentialing we examine the current use of pre-applications. An excerpt of the article is on the blog; the entire article is available online in mid-October.

Calling all medical staff professionals and medical staff leaders: Have you mastered your organization’s OPPE process? Do you have a solid medical staff leader orientation process to ensure new members have the tools they need to tackle the challenges they will face? If so, we want to hear from you!