It is the medical staff’s and hospital’s responsibility to appoint the members of a hearing panel. There are some well established restrictions that preclude certain individuals from being appointed to a hearing panel for an individual case. For example, the medical staff and hospital should not appoint an individual to the hearing panel who is a direct financial competitor or partner of the physician in question, as doing so poses a conflict of interest.

The CRC team hears it often: Dollars for education continue to dwindle. We know that often those in the medical staff services field have to choose only one conference a year to attend or have to submit a budget and proposal to attend educational opportunities in the upcoming year. Let us make your job a little easier. The CRC team has developed a justification letter that you can use to explain to your organization and supervisor why you should attend the 2020 CRC Symposium. Click here to download the letter and customize it to fit your specific needs.

As APPs increasingly specialize in areas of practice, medical staff services departments (MSSD) must evolve their privileging practices to ensure that APPs are only granted privileges for the procedures they are competent to perform.

Pediatric urology is the subspecialty of urology that is concerned with the diagnosis, management, and treatment of genitourinary and adrenal abnormalities and diseases in both males and females, from birth through adolescence.