Description
Albany Medical College’s Patient Safety and Clinical Competency Center (PSCCC) houses a collection of simulation and clinical training resources to education students and health care professionals in a safe and dynamic setting. The Center is available to medical professionals from across the region for clinical competency assessment, and to smaller regional hospitals and emergency response units.
Subject/Competency
Clinical Competency Assessment Program, Physician Reentry
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by
Albany Medical College
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Physician Remediation Resources
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Albany Medical College – Patient Safety and Clinical Competency Center (Upstate New York)
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Albany Medical College – Better Doctoring Alden March Bioethics Institute
Description
The Alden March Bioethics Institute’s “Better Doctoring” 15-day, online seminar is a time-sensitive course designed for physicians seeking to enhance their knowledge and judgment skills relating to medical ethics and professionalism.
Over the 15-day schedule (25 to 30 hours) participants will work through five distance-learning modules using SAKAI, our online learning platform. These modules combine both a personal and tailored approach to ensure a participant’s specific needs are met, as well as a general approach to the field of medical professionalism and misconduct.
Objectives
Web-based distance learning remedial professionalism, boundaries, ethics, and law program.
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
Albany Medical College
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism -
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment and Remedial Education Services Program (Florida CARES)
Description
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment and Remedial Education Services Program (Florida CARES) provides a specialty specific assessment of a physician’s medical knowledge, decision making process, patient communication skills and level of psychological functioning. It is designed to help organizations such as the Board of Medicine and hospital medical staff’s make decisions regarding whether a physician demonstrates the abilities and attributes to practice medicine in a safe and competent manner. Some common circumstances include:
– Returning to practice after treatment for chemical dependency.
– Returning to practice after an extended leave of absence.
– Diagnosed with a physical or mental illness that could affect his or her ability to practice medicine.
– The subject of a patient care or malpractice complaint before the Board in which the knowledge or judgment of the physician is in question.
Subject/Objective
Clinical Competency Assessment Program, Physician Re-entry
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
Florida University College of Medicine, member of the Physician Coalition for Physician Enhancement
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Medical Knowledge
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism -
American College of Chest Physicians – CHEST SEEK Library
Description
Developed from the content blueprints for the board examinations, SEEK features cases and multiple-choice questions and answers with rationales to test your knowledge with timed mock exams. The case-based questions include histories, lab results, and images, and provide education on current diagnostic and treatment strategies.
CHEST SEEK resources are valuable study tools for anyone preparing for certification and recertification examinations sponsored by the medical specialty board.
Subject/Objective
a) evaluate patient cases, diagnoses, and treatments,
(b) apply research findings and recommended guidelines to diagnosis
and treatment of patients
(c) differentiate between proper and improper management of patient case, and
(d) using scientific research and recommendations, identify solutions to real-world clinical problems.
Includes Physician Reentry
Yes
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
American College of Chest Physicians
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Systems-based Practice
Medical Knowledge
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Federation of State Medical Boards & the National Board of Medical Examiners – Special Purpose Examination (SPEX)
Description
The SPEX® is a computerize, multiple-choice examination of current knowledge requisite for the general, undifferentiated practice of medicine. State boards may require SPEX for endorsement of licensure, reinstatement of a license, or reactivation of a license or reactivation of a license after a period of inactivity.
Subject/Competency
Computerized, MCS, General Medical Knowledge Examination
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by
Joint program of the Federation of State Medical Boards & the National Board of Medical Examiners
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
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Federation of State Medical Boards & the National Board of Medical Examiners – Post-Licensure Assessment System (PLAS)
Description
The Post-Licensure Assessment System (PLAS) is a joint program of the Federation of State Medical Boards and the National Board of Medical Examiners and provides objective and personalized tools for assessment of physicians’ clinical competence.
These tools are utilized by national assessment programs to assist them in conducting comprehensive, tailored assessments of physicians’ medical knowledge, clinical judgment and patient management skills.
Subject/Objective
Assessments for physicians who hold or have held – a medical license in the US or Canada
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
Joint program of the Federation of State Medical Boards & the National Board of Medical Examiners
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Medical Knowledge
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KSTAR – A&M Rural & Community Health Institute – Physician Assessment
Description
KSTAR assessments are two days at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in Bryan, Texas. The assessments review physician expertise to determine a physician’s competence and ability to practice medicine. Assessments typically include standardized patients, record review, interviews, cognitive screening, EKG rhythm strip interpretations and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME PLAS) multiple choice testing in Mechanisms of Disease, Ethics & Communication, Pharmacotherapeutics and a Subject Test.
Subject/Objective
The assessment reviews physician expertise to determine a physician’s competence and ability to practice medicine. Assessments identify a physician’s strengths, weaknesses, and makes recommendations based on the outcomes.
Includes Physician Reentry
Yes
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
KSTAR – A&M Rural & Community Health Institute
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Systems-based Practice
Medical Knowledge
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism -
KSTAR – A&M Rural & Community Health Institute – Best Practices in Communication Course
Description
A two-day program for healthcare professionals who seek to improve their communication skills. Communication often fails to be effective when dealing with patients, families and other team members as evidenced by the number of physicians ordered to Communication courses by State Medical Boards. This program serves to bridge the communication gap by improving physician communication.
This course addresses provider-patient as well as provider-provider communications. Attendees will learn to enhance their patient-centered interviewing skills and will also review best practices in healthcare team communication. Potential participants include clinicians seeking a higher level of patient communication, providers who want to improve their patient satisfaction scores, and healthcare professionals that have demonstrated problematic communication behaviors.
Subject/Objective
1. Improve communication with patients and healthcare peers.
2. Identify strategies to improve overall healthcare team communication.
3. Apply patient-centered communication techniques in patient encounters.
4. Understand factors contributing to practitioner burnout.
Website Link
Link to Website
Affiliated or Accredited by:
KSTAR – A&M Rural & Community Health Institute
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
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PBI Education – Physician Coaching
Description
Coaching is a follow-up opportunity for physicians that have taken a prior PBI Education remedial course in the past. Coaching is facilitated in a one-on-one format with an experienced PBI faculty member. Discussions are focused and tailored on the issues at hand, the specifics of their case, and are centered around exploring personalized strategies for practicing safely.
Subject/Objective
1. Maintaining appropriate boundaries
2. Navigating ethical dilemmas
3. Improving civility and communication (with co-workers, within teams, and with patients)
4. Enhancing professionalism
5. Burnout an stress management
Website Link
Email info@pbieducation.com for inquiries
Affiliated or Accredited by:
PBI Education
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism -
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy – Remediation Program to Improve Quality in Colonoscopy
Description
This one-page resource outline the steps a facility should take to assess endoscopists’ performance relative to screening coloscopy.
Subject/Objective
To identify endoscopists performing below community recognized performance goals.
To provide specific direction for low-level providers to support remediation.
Website Link
Link to resource
Link to Sample Remediation Plan
Affiliated or Accredited by:
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
ABMS/ACGME Competencies
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Patient Care & Procedural Skills
