The Joint Commission has identified the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s core competencies as a potential framework for evaluating practitioners who are credentialed and privileged through the medical staff. The competency domains provide the foundation for identifying and developing OPPE indicators. This free resource defines and provides sample indicators for each competency area.

Former neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch’s recent conviction of first-degree felony injury to an elderly person and his subsequent sentence of life in prison brings renewed attention to the issues of disclosing disciplinary information and exercising due diligence when credentialing healthcare practitioners.  

Thank you to all the MSPs, quality professionals, and medical staff leaders who made the 2017 CRC Symposium so memorable! This year’s conference may be over, but the application of lessons learned—and the friendships formed—are just beginning. Here are a few post-conference reminders from the CRC team:

• Obtain your CEUs online. To receive your continuing education certificate for this program, you must complete the online evaluation found here within two weeks of the conference’s conclusion.
• Download conference materials. If you want to revisit any presentations you attended, don’t forget to download PDF copies of the relevant slide decks. A link to the downloadable content can be found on page 2 of the program guide.
• Keep the conversation going. Just because the 2017 CRC Symposium is over, doesn’t mean you can’t keep networking. The conference mobile app will remain active for a year, so keep posting comments and photos to the activity feed. You can also use the app’s message feature to stay in touch with other attendees. And if you email conference memories directly to shoang@hcpro.com, your comments could end up in a future edition of CRC Daily.
• Check out the CRC site, e-newsletters, and social channels (Twitter and LinkedIn), where we’re accumulating quite the collection of conference coverage. For day-by-day highlights, click here, here, and here. 
• Get excited for the 2018 CRC Symposium. Stay tuned for details about next year’s conference in Las Vegas!