A team from Renton, Washington–based Providence St. Joseph Health System is this year's CRC Symposium Case Study Competition winner. Suman Nooney, BE, and Brigitte R. Workman, BA, will present their case study, Creating Consolidated Data the Easy Way: How Providence St. Joseph Health System Integrated Medical Staff and Credentialing Processes, at the 2018 CRC Symposium, February 5-6 in Las Vegas.

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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 actually practice, but rather on some theoretical scope of practice in their specialty.

Published 1/15/18

In this month’s column, we shall explore the role of the healthcare organization in burnout prevention and remediation. A starting point is to look at the culture of the medical staff. Every medical staff organization has a defining “culture”; its repository of beliefs, values, and behaviors. You ignore this culture at your own peril.