Bylaws of the Aerospace Medical Association.

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Peer Review – Legal and Ethical Issues Faced by Medical Staff: The Mandate for Physician Leadership

Physicians working in hospitals face challenges when it comes to understanding and meeting the medical, legal, and ethical subjects outlined in the hospital bylaws. Hospital staff physicians and the hospital administration both aspire for high quality medical care and the assurance of patient safety. Unfortunately, when quality concerns surface, there can be reasonable differences of opinion as...

Impact of the Single Accreditation Agreement on GME Governance and the Physician Workforce.

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association February 2015 | Vol 115 | No. 2 e2 Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). First, the single GME accreditation system is not a merger of the osteopathic and allopathic medical professions. The agreement with the ACGME streamlines the accreditation of GME programs but preserves and perpetuates the distinctive elements of the osteopathic...

Proposed changes to the hospital-medical staff relationship to improve quality of care.

Medical staff attorney Snelson answers the Colloquium's charge, "What exactly has to change in the hospital-medical staff relationship for health care quality to be improved?" Her response emphasizes the logic of having clinicians vested with authority to establish policies concerning the clinical decision-making. The article discusses the cases defining the medical staff bylaws as contractual ...

Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations.