Effective meeting management requires diplomacy and proven management techniques. Physician leaders should be well prepared for each meeting, and they should be able to identify reasonable objectives. Meetings should be as brief as possible while still accomplishing objectives.

As more hospitals merge into larger health systems, these systems will have to decide whether to maintain a separate medical staff at each hospital or to merge medical staffs—partially or fully. CMS announced in 2014 that medical staffs in the same health system functioning under a single-system governing body could unify and consolidate. This left hospitals and their medical staffs to decide if they should do so.

In this 90-minute webinar, Sharon Beckwith, CEO of MD Review, and Brock Bordelon, MD,medical director at MD Review, provide actionable strategies for effective peer review, offer evaluation methodologies for monitoring physician performance, and describe common pitfalls that impede the peer review process. The speakers also highlight the crucial role of communication in effective peer review and explain the advantages of methods such as simulation, proctoring, and external review.