The American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology is testing the use of short online exams as a replacement to its written recertification exam.

This tool does a great job of identifying various aspects of medical staff committees that may require increased administrative support as well as identifying other opportunities for improvement and efficacy that might be achieved through outsourcing or changes in technology or workflow.

Whoever is going to perform this exam should have the delineation of privileges form so they know what it is that a practitioner is doing in his or her practice, and then the exam can be customized appro­priately, says Todd Sagin, MD, JD. If you are a radiologist, obviously your visual capacity is really important, but your ability to stand for 10 hours doing a vascular operation is not.

CRC members can now peruse all of the online articles from the May 2019 issues of CRCJ and MSB, as well as full-color PDFs here:

• CRCJ
• MSB

To access the relevant full-issue PDF, select "DOWNLOAD FULL ISSUE" at the top of the page.

The Fifth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals (the “Court”) affirmed a district court decision ruling that federal and state immunity provisions do not provide hospitals immunity from patient-brought suits for negligent credentialing.