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Indian Medical Association launches hunger strike. Lancet 2021; 397:567. [PMID: 33581811 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)00363-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Improving Graduate Medical Education Through Faculty Empowerment Instead of Detailed Guidelines. ACADEMIC MEDICINE : JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 2021; 96:173-175. [PMID: 32271226 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Calls for improvement and reform in graduate medical education (GME) have led to more detail in educational and curricular guidelines. The current level of detail in curriculum guidelines for GME training programs is high, encompassing, for example, competency frameworks, entrustable professional activities, and milestones. In addition, faculty must employ an increasing number of assessment tools and elaborate portfolio systems for their residents. It is questionable whether any further increase in curriculum detail and assessment formats leads to better GME programs. Focusing on this type of system development may even lead to less engaged faculty if faculty are not encouraged to use their own professional judgment and creativity for teaching residents. Therefore, faculty members must be empowered to engage in curricular innovation, since system development alone will not result in better training programs. Raising faculty members' awareness of their virtues and value as teachers and involving them in the debate about how GME can be enhanced might increase their engagement in resident training.
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Making Progress: The University of Hawai'i at Manoa's (UHM) Department of Surgery's Cross-Cultural Health Care Efforts from 2008-2018. HAWAI'I JOURNAL OF HEALTH & SOCIAL WELFARE 2019; 78:14-20. [PMID: 31930196 PMCID: PMC6949469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In 2008 the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's (UHM) Department of Surgery introduced the concept of cross-cultural health care (aka cultural competency) to its faculty and trainees. Much work remains before the cultural efforts wellknown outside the department are embraced within, but it has been prioritized for curriculum development and research. An example of the department's efforts include the Cross-Cultural Health Care Research Collaborative, which was created as a forum for faculty who have an interest in cultural issues related to healthcare and healthcare delivery. Participants from 14 UHM departments and other organizations developed projects and mentored students, resulting in over ten peer-reviewed publications. A related effort is the JABSOM Cultural Competency Resource Guide, which is in its 7th edition and reflects JABSOM activities and those of its collaborators. Another highlight is the Biennial Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference: Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Interventions, with six conferences held since 2010, hosting attendees from 28 US Mainland states and 11 countries. Additionally, the department has been recognized as one of the first to develop a cultural standardized patient exam for surgical residents. These nationally-recognized efforts resulted in invitations to serve on the very first cultural competency panel at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress and as a consultant on the development of Brigham and Women's Hospital's Center for Surgery and Public Health's Provider Awareness and Cultural dexterity Toolkit for Surgeons (PACTS), a standardized curriculum for surgical residents. The department plans to continue its work on these projects and document outcomes.
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- Cultural Competency/education
- Cultural Competency/organization & administration
- Culturally Competent Care/methods
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Graduate/methods
- Education, Medical, Undergraduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Undergraduate/methods
- General Surgery/education
- General Surgery/methods
- General Surgery/statistics & numerical data
- Hawaii
- Humans
- Schools, Medical/organization & administration
- Schools, Medical/statistics & numerical data
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The Spanish National Commission of Specialty in the Context of Troncality. REUMATOLOGIA CLINICA 2019; 15:1-2. [PMID: 30638595 DOI: 10.1016/j.reuma.2018.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Trainee doctor is suspended for 12 months for faking signatures over competencies. BMJ 2018; 363:k4664. [PMID: 30389657 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k4664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Resident Empowerment as a Driving Theme of Graduate Medical Education Reform. ACADEMIC MEDICINE : JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 2018; 93:357-359. [PMID: 28953565 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000001935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Through a series of six recent conferences, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation wanted to try to change the discussion about graduate medical education (GME) reform to one that is about the innovations needed to better prepare residents for the changing world of practice they will be entering and for meeting the needs of the patient population they will serve. These conferences featured some of the encouraging innovations in GME that are occurring at local and regional levels. An ongoing theme from many of these reforms is the empowerment of residents. The author examines what it would mean for health care systems, residency programs, and residents themselves to pursue empowerment for this significant portion of the health care workforce. Residents should be seen as a valuable component of the health care workforce with the ability to contribute to institutional and societal goals. The author highlights examples of existing programs that use residents in this way, but to accomplish this more broadly will require culture change and greater flexibility on the part of GME and institutional leadership.
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Modern Trends: The Impact of Social, Technological, and Economic Forces on Psychiatric Education and Training. ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY : THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENCY TRAINING AND THE ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC PSYCHIATRY 2016; 40:863-868. [PMID: 27761880 DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0624-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pragmatism Over Politics. Ann Vasc Surg 2016; 37:1-2. [PMID: 27780547 DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2017 Rates; Quality Reporting Requirements for Specific Providers; Graduate Medical Education; Hospital Notification Procedures Applicable to Beneficiaries Receiving Observation Services; Technical Changes Relating to Costs to Organizations and Medicare Cost Reports; Finalization of Interim Final Rules With Comment Period on LTCH PPS Payments for Severe Wounds, Modifications of Limitations on Redesignation by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board, and Extensions of Payments to MDHs and Low-Volume Hospitals. Final rule. FEDERAL REGISTER 2016; 81:56761-57345. [PMID: 27544939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems for FY 2017. Some of these changes will implement certain statutory provisions contained in the Pathway for Sustainable Growth Reform Act of 2013, the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implications for Care Eligibility Act of 2015, and other legislation. We also are providing the estimated market basket update to apply to the rate-of-increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits for FY 2017. We are updating the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) for FY 2017. In addition, we are making changes relating to direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education payments; establishing new requirements or revising existing requirements for quality reporting by specific Medicare providers (acute care hospitals, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, LTCHs, and inpatient psychiatric facilities), including related provisions for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program; updating policies relating to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, and the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program; implementing statutory provisions that require hospitals and CAHs to furnish notification to Medicare beneficiaries, including Medicare Advantage enrollees, when the beneficiaries receive outpatient observation services for more than 24 hours; announcing the implementation of the Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration; and making technical corrections and changes to regulations relating to costs to related organizations and Medicare cost reports; we are providing notice of the closure of three teaching hospitals and the opportunity to apply for available GME resident slots under section 5506 of the Affordable Care Act. We are finalizing the provisions of interim final rules with comment period that relate to a temporary exception for certain wound care discharges from the application of the site neutral payment rate under the LTCH PPS for certain LTCHs; application of two judicial decisions relating to modifications of limitations on redesignation by the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board; and legislative extensions of the Medicare-dependent, small rural hospital program and changes to the payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals.
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- Education, Medical, Graduate/economics
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Hospitals, Low-Volume/economics
- Hospitals, Low-Volume/legislation & jurisprudence
- Hospitals, Rural/economics
- Hospitals, Rural/legislation & jurisprudence
- Hospitals, Urban/economics
- Hospitals, Urban/legislation & jurisprudence
- Humans
- Long-Term Care/economics
- Long-Term Care/legislation & jurisprudence
- Medicare/economics
- Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence
- Prospective Payment System/economics
- Prospective Payment System/legislation & jurisprudence
- Quality of Health Care/economics
- Quality of Health Care/legislation & jurisprudence
- United States
- Wounds and Injuries/economics
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GME Milestone. Tex Med 2016; 112:41-45. [PMID: 27532810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Thanks to years of TMA advocacy, the 2015 legislature more than tripled 2013 graduate medical education monies under an expansion initiative to help secure a pathway for doctors-in-training to enter the workforce.
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Consensus on Graduate Medical Education Financing: An Analysis of Stakeholder Responses to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Open Letter. J Grad Med Educ 2015; 7:705-8. [PMID: 26692999 PMCID: PMC4675450 DOI: 10.4300/jgme-d-15-00421.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In December 2014, the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives sent an open letter requesting interested parties to respond to 7 questions on graduate medical education (GME). More than 100 organizations and individuals responded. METHODS An online search for responses yielded 27 organizations that had published their responses to the committee's open letter. Responses included answers to the 7 questions and additional recommendations. The 27 respondents proposed a total of 80 unique interventions. Each intervention was screened for concordance with those from other organizations, and then categorized as supportive, in opposition, or making no mention. Data were entered into a spreadsheet and rank ordered on the frequency of support. RESULTS At the top of the rankings were several interventions with significant support from many respondents. CONCLUSIONS Given the broader GME constituency represented by the 27 stakeholders in this analysis, the 80 proposed interventions represent a comprehensive inventory of the extant ideas regarding the financing, governance, and oversight of GME. This objective analysis could help both spur productive discussions and form the foundation for a larger public policy deliberation of GME financing.
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Adoption of a Uniform Start Date for Internal Medicine Fellowships and Other Advanced Training: An AAIM White Paper. Am J Med 2015; 128:1039-43. [PMID: 26071819 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014: Examining Graduate Medical Education Enhancement in the Department of Veterans Affairs. ACADEMIC MEDICINE : JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 2015; 90:1196-1198. [PMID: 26107878 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000000795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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From 2006 to 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) introduced the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Enhancement initiative to increase residency positions at VA training sites. VA once again has an opportunity to fund new residency positions through the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 (VACAA). Congressional requirements under VACAA give priority to positions in primary care, mental health, and other specialties that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs deems appropriate. Moreover, facilities meeting the following criteria will be awarded priority for expansion: no prior GME activities, a shortage of physicians, rural locations, areas with a "high concentration of veterans," or located in Health Professional Shortage Areas as defined by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The authors of this Commentary discuss the implications of the new legislation, reviewing the past VA GME Enhancement efforts to examine the potential impact of further expansion of VA GME positions. Understanding the intent of the legislation and its provisions will allow qualified existing and potentially new affiliates to successfully pursue new residency positions during the five-year period of VA GME expansion under VACAA.
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Does the GMC think it's immune to its own guidance regarding candour? BMJ 2015; 350:h3194. [PMID: 26078187 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h3194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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GMC had standard secretariat role in independent training review. BMJ 2015; 350:h3139. [PMID: 26077936 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h3139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Author's reply to Dickson. BMJ 2015; 350:h3152. [PMID: 26078049 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h3152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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GMC's supposedly independent training review included secret meetings with politicians. BMJ 2015; 350:h2400. [PMID: 25953326 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h2400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Update: A Review of Women's Health Fellowships, Their Role in Interdisciplinary Health Care, and the Need for Accreditation. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2015; 24:336-40. [PMID: 25884348 PMCID: PMC4440992 DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2014.5187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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While Women's Health (WH) Fellowships have been in existence since 1990, knowledge of their existence seems limited. Specialized training in WH is crucial to educate leaders who can appropriately integrate this multidisciplinary field into academic centers, especially as the demand for providers confident in the areas of contraception, perimenopause/menopause, hormone therapy, osteoporosis, hypoactive sexual desire disorder, medical management of abnormal uterine bleeding, office based care of stress/urge incontinence, and gender-based medicine are increasing popular and highly sought after. WH fellowship programs would benefit from accreditation from the American Board of Medical Subspecialties and from the American College of Graduate Medical Education, as this may allow for greater recruitment, selection, and training of future leaders in WH. This article provides a current review of what WH trained physicians can offer patients, and also highlights the added value that accreditation would offer the field. Ultimately, accrediting WH fellowships will improve women's health medical education by creating specialists that can serve as academic leaders to help infuse gender specific education in primary residencies, as well as serve as consultants and leaders, and promote visibility and prestige of the field.
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Women's Health Fellowships: Examining the Potential Benefits and Harms of Accreditation. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2015; 24:341-8. [PMID: 25919589 PMCID: PMC4440995 DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2015.5289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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This commentary responds to the assertions by Foreman et al. that credentialing of women's health (WH) fellows by the American Board of Medical Subspecialties and accreditation of current and future WH fellowships by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education would improve the health and healthcare of women by increasing the number of primary care providers competent to meet a growing clinical need. They speculate that such accreditation would raise the status of WH fellowships, increase the number of applicants, and result in more academic leaders in WH. They assert that curricular deficiencies in WH exist in physician training and that WH fellowships are the preferred means of training physicians to care for midlife women. We review the evidence to support or refute these claims and conclude that accrediting WH fellowships would not have the forecasted outcomes and would jeopardize the success of current WH fellowships.
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- Education, Medical, Graduate/economics
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Financing, Government/legislation & jurisprudence
- Financing, Government/organization & administration
- Hospitals, Teaching/economics
- Internship and Residency/economics
- Medicaid/economics
- Medicare/economics
- National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division
- Research Report
- Training Support/legislation & jurisprudence
- Training Support/organization & administration
- United States
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[New frontiers of education in healthcare]. EPIDEMIOLOGIA E PREVENZIONE 2014; 38:42-44. [PMID: 25759342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Competency is the ability to use a structured set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes in a specific professional context, or in professional training. Over the past 10 years there has been an acceleration of the trend towards a competency-based design of the education of healthcare professionals, rather than just defining learning objectives or relying on the content of disciplinary programs. The choice for a competency-based curriculum is not only the result of a changed pedagogical vision, but also an answer to the request of accountability toward society about how are the professionals trained and also to allow comparability between universities and nations. In recent years, many international initiatives have defined competency models for medicine and more specifically for public health. This article summarizes these initiatives, putting them in the context of the evolving Italian legislation.
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- Education, Medical, Graduate/economics
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Financing, Government
- Hospitals, Teaching/economics
- Internship and Residency/economics
- Medicaid/economics
- Medicare/economics
- National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division
- United States
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Obama's indirect way of changing the physician mix. MODERN HEALTHCARE 2014; 44:24. [PMID: 24830273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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- Budgets/legislation & jurisprudence
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S./economics
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S./legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Graduate/economics
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Financing, Government/legislation & jurisprudence
- Humans
- Internship and Residency/economics
- Internship and Residency/legislation & jurisprudence
- Internship and Residency/statistics & numerical data
- Physicians, Primary Care/economics
- Physicians, Primary Care/education
- Physicians, Primary Care/supply & distribution
- Politics
- United States
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[Report from the executive board]. NEUROPSYCHIATRIE : KLINIK, DIAGNOSTIK, THERAPIE UND REHABILITATION : ORGAN DER GESELLSCHAFT OSTERREICHISCHER NERVENARZTE UND PSYCHIATER 2014; 28:222-223. [PMID: 25410911 DOI: 10.1007/s40211-014-0127-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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[Report from the president]. NEUROPSYCHIATRIE : KLINIK, DIAGNOSTIK, THERAPIE UND REHABILITATION : ORGAN DER GESELLSCHAFT OSTERREICHISCHER NERVENARZTE UND PSYCHIATER 2014; 28:224-225. [PMID: 25428527 DOI: 10.1007/s40211-014-0128-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Medicare program; hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and the long-term care hospital prospective payment system and Fiscal Year 2014 rates; quality reporting requirements for specific providers; hospital conditions of participation; payment policies related to patient status. Final rules. FEDERAL REGISTER 2013; 78:50495-51040. [PMID: 23977713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. Some of the changes implement certain statutory provisions contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act) and other legislation. These changes will be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2013, unless otherwise specified in this final rule. We also are updating the rate-of-increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits. The updated rate-of-increase limits will be effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2013. We also are updating the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and implementing certain statutory changes that were applied to the LTCH PPS by the Affordable Care Act. Generally, these updates and statutory changes will be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2013, unless otherwise specified in this final rule. In addition, we are making a number of changes relating to direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) payments. We are establishing new requirements or have revised requirements for quality reporting by specific providers (acute care hospitals, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, LTCHs, and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs)) that are participating in Medicare. We are updating policies relating to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. In addition, we are revising the conditions of participation (CoPs) for hospitals relating to the administration of vaccines by nursing staff as well as the CoPs for critical access hospitals relating to the provision of acute care inpatient services. We are finalizing proposals issued in two separate proposed rules that included payment policies related to patient status: payment of Medicare Part B inpatient services; and admission and medical review criteria for payment of hospital inpatient services under Medicare Part A.
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- Cancer Care Facilities/economics
- Cancer Care Facilities/legislation & jurisprudence
- Economics, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Graduate/economics
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Health Care Reform/economics
- Health Care Reform/legislation & jurisprudence
- Hospitals, Psychiatric/economics
- Hospitals, Psychiatric/legislation & jurisprudence
- Humans
- Inpatients/legislation & jurisprudence
- Legislation, Hospital/economics
- Long-Term Care/economics
- Long-Term Care/legislation & jurisprudence
- Mandatory Reporting
- Medicare/economics
- Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- Prospective Payment System/economics
- Prospective Payment System/legislation & jurisprudence
- Quality Assurance, Health Care/economics
- Quality Assurance, Health Care/legislation & jurisprudence
- United States
- Value-Based Purchasing/economics
- Value-Based Purchasing/legislation & jurisprudence
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Good health policy is nothing to sneeze at--MSMS makes sure physicians are heard in Lansing. MICHIGAN MEDICINE 2013; 112:14-16. [PMID: 23914712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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[The four year rule and humanitarian medical practice]. Ugeskr Laeger 2013; 175:1140. [PMID: 23802266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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'Admit voluntary, schedule if tries to leave': placing Mental Health Acts in the context of mental health law and human rights. Australas Psychiatry 2013; 21:137-40. [PMID: 23426098 DOI: 10.1177/1039856212466923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Most postgraduate training for clinicians in Australia and New Zealand regarding mental health legislation focuses on the relevant Mental Health Acts (MHAs) rather than the broader principles of mental health law. Key concepts include treatment in the least restrictive environment, voluntary access to mental health services, treatability, reciprocity and due process. Lack of awareness of these principles may result in a more risk-averse interpretation of MHAs, which is inconsistent with the spirit of mental health law and the promotion of human rights. The aim of this paper is to present some fundamental principles of mental health law, which are essential to proper clinical application of MHAs, and to demonstrate why they should form part of the curriculum for psychiatry training and continuing professional development for psychiatrists. CONCLUSIONS A sound understanding of the principles of mental health law is essential for all clinicians who may be enacting aspects of MHAs. This provides the necessary platform to safeguard human rights and optimise the care of people with a mental illness.
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GME reform. Ann Fam Med 2013; 11:90. [PMID: 23319516 PMCID: PMC3596025 DOI: 10.1370/afm.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Medicare program; hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and the long-term care hospital prospective payment system and fiscal year 2013 rates; hospitals' resident caps for graduate medical education payment purposes; quality reporting requirements for specific providers and for ambulatory surgical centers. final rule. FEDERAL REGISTER 2012; 77:53257-53750. [PMID: 22937544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems. Some of the changes implement certain statutory provisions contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act) and other legislation. These changes will be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2012, unless otherwise specified in this final rule. We also are updating the rate-of-increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits. The updated rate-of-increase limits will be effective for cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2012. We are updating the payment policies and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and implementing certain statutory changes made by the Affordable Care Act. Generally, these changes will be applicable to discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2012, unless otherwise specified in this final rule. In addition, we are implementing changes relating to determining a hospital's full-time equivalent (FTE) resident cap for the purpose of graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) payments. We are establishing new requirements or revised requirements for quality reporting by specific providers (acute care hospitals, PPS-exempt cancer hospitals, LTCHs, and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs)) that are participating in Medicare. We also are establishing new administrative, data completeness, and extraordinary circumstance waivers or extension requests requirements, as well as a reconsideration process, for quality reporting by ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) that are participating in Medicare. We are establishing requirements for the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Program and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
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Factors associated with intern noncompliance with the 2003 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's 30-hour duty period requirement. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2012; 12:33. [PMID: 22621439 PMCID: PMC3398848 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2011] [Accepted: 05/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND In 2003 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education mandated work hour restrictions. Violations can results in a residency program being cited or placed on probation. Recurrent violations could results in loss of accreditation. We wanted to determine specific intern and workload factors associated with violation of a specific mandate, the 30-hour duty period requirement. METHODS Retrospective review of interns' performance against the 30-hour duty period requirement during inpatient ward rotations at a pediatric residency program between June 24, 2008 and June 23, 2009. The analytical plan included both univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses. RESULTS Twenty of the 26 (77%) interns had 80 self-reported episodes of continuous work hours greater than 30 hours. In multivariable analysis, noncompliance was inversely associated with the number of prior inpatient rotations (odds ratio: 0.49, 95% confidence interval (0.38, 0.64) per rotation) but directly associated with the total number of patients (odds ratio: 1.30 (1.10, 1.53) per additional patient). The number of admissions on-call, number of admissions after midnight and number of discharges post-call were not significantly associated with noncompliance. The level of noncompliance also varied significantly between interns after accounting for intern experience and workload factors. Subject to limitations in statistical power, we were unable to identify specific intern characteristics, such as demographic variables or examination scores, which account for the variation in noncompliance between interns. CONCLUSIONS Both intern and workload factors were associated with pediatric intern noncompliance with the 30-hour duty period requirement during inpatient ward rotations. Residency programs must develop information systems to understand the individual and experience factors associated with noncompliance and implement appropriate interventions to ensure compliance with the duty hour regulations.
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[Social medicine expert assessment of occupational work capacity]. VERSICHERUNGSMEDIZIN 2012; 64:90. [PMID: 22808651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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[Reform of forensic autopsy in the German Code of Criminal Procedure]. ARCHIV FUR KRIMINOLOGIE 2012; 229:73-89. [PMID: 22611906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The Federal Ministry of Justice has presented another proposal to rephrase the wording of Section 87 of the German Code of Criminal Procedure (StPO). The new version of Section 87 StPO is to be rejected as it would lead to a loss of institutional and professional standards. The bill is clearly influenced by a tendency towards privatisation for the benefit of a small group of specialists in forensic medicine mostly organised in limited liability companies and thus at the expense of institutes of legal medicine affiliated to universities or physicians working in the forensic service of regional courts. In the long run, this reform would not only jeopardize medicolegal research and teaching but also medical education and specialist medical training. For future severe negative consequences would have to be expected on the rule of law and legal certainty.
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[Who limit vaginal birth for breech presentation: medical practice or Law? Discussion between a medical doctor, a lawyer and the head chief of an university hospital]. J Gynecol Obstet Hum Reprod 2011; 40:587-589. [PMID: 21763083 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgyn.2011.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2011] [Revised: 05/15/2011] [Accepted: 05/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The mode of delivery of breech presentation still remains a debate in France. Despite the medical arguments, themselves in debate, exists a legal pressure felt by medical practitioners. Our study highlights the different opinions of medical practitioners, lawyers and medical teachers faced with breech presentation.
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- Breech Presentation/therapy
- Communication
- Delivery, Obstetric/education
- Delivery, Obstetric/legislation & jurisprudence
- Dissent and Disputes
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Graduate/methods
- Female
- Hospitals, University/legislation & jurisprudence
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Jurisprudence
- Lawyers
- Medical Staff, Hospital
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence
- Physicians
- Practice Guidelines as Topic
- Pregnancy
- Professional Practice/legislation & jurisprudence
- Vagina
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Medicare program; hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and the long-term care hospital prospective payment system and FY 2012 rates; hospitals' FTE resident caps for graduate medical education payment. Final rules. FEDERAL REGISTER 2011; 76:51476-51846. [PMID: 21894648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We are revising the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement changes arising from our continuing experience with these systems and to implement certain statutory provisions contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively known as the Affordable Care Act) and other legislation. We also are setting forth the update to the rate-of-increase limits for certain hospitals excluded from the IPPS that are paid on a reasonable cost basis subject to these limits. We are updating the payment policy and the annual payment rates for the Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) for inpatient hospital services provided by long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and implementing certain statutory changes made by the Affordable Care Act. In addition, we are finalizing an interim final rule with comment period that implements section 203 of the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010 relating to the treatment of teaching hospitals that are members of the same Medicare graduate medical education affiliated groups for the purpose of determining possible full-time equivalent (FTE) resident cap reductions.
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[Untrained specialty work. It is possible in private practice]. MMW Fortschr Med 2011; 153:10. [PMID: 21608147 DOI: 10.1007/bf03368277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Accounting for graduate medical education production of primary care physicians and general surgeons: timing of measurement matters. ACADEMIC MEDICINE : JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES 2011; 86:605-608. [PMID: 21436657 DOI: 10.1097/acm.0b013e3182134634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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PURPOSE Legislation proposed in 2009 to expand GME set institutional primary care and general surgery production eligibility thresholds at 25% at entry into training. The authors measured institutions' production of primary care physicians and general surgeons on completion of first residency versus two to four years after graduation to inform debate and explore residency expansion and physician workforce implications. METHOD Production of primary care physicians and general surgeons was assessed by retrospective analysis of the 2009 American Medical Association Masterfile, which includes physicians' training institution, residency specialty, and year of completion for up to six training experiences. The authors measured production rates for each institution based on physicians completing their first residency during 2005-2007 in family or internal medicine, pediatrics, or general surgery. They then reassessed rates to account for those who completed additional training. They compared these rates with proposed expansion eligibility thresholds and current workforce needs. RESULTS Of 116,004 physicians completing their first residency, 54,245 (46.8%) were in primary care and general surgery. Of 683 training institutions, 586 met the 25% threshold for expansion eligibility. At two to four years out, only 29,963 physicians (25.8%) remained in primary care or general surgery, and 135 institutions lost eligibility. A 35% threshold eliminated 314 institutions collectively training 93,774 residents (80.8%). CONCLUSIONS Residency expansion thresholds that do not account for production at least two to four years after completion of first residency overestimate eligibility. The overall primary care production rate from GME will not sustain the current physician workforce composition.
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[Teaching experience of the anesthesiology training unit at Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria]. REVISTA ESPANOLA DE ANESTESIOLOGIA Y REANIMACION 2011; 58:223-229. [PMID: 21608278 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-9356(11)70044-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Health care in Spain has improved progressively and professionals are now required to meet competency levels that safeguard the citizen's right to health protection. To achieve this, instructors in residency training programs and resident physicians themselves are calling for a common framework for training to ensure quality and consistency. Given the scarcity of articles related to training in our journal and following the First Meeting of Residency Program Instructors of the Sociedad Española de Anestesiologia y Reanimación (SEDAR), there has arisen a need to explain how SEDAR's training unit is organized. METHODS In order to facilitate the sharing of experiences of those involved in training anesthesiology medical residents, we undertook a descriptive analysis of our hospital's curriculum. RESULTS The structure and operation of the department are described in this report. The results of anonymous surveys completed annually show the satisfaction of residents (9.4 out of 10) and physicians (8.7 out of 10). An audit by the Ministry of Health showed that the curriculum met 100% of the required criteria.
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MESH Headings
- Anesthesia Department, Hospital/organization & administration
- Anesthesia Department, Hospital/statistics & numerical data
- Anesthesiology/education
- Clinical Competence
- Curriculum
- Education, Medical, Graduate/legislation & jurisprudence
- Education, Medical, Graduate/organization & administration
- Educational Measurement
- Faculty, Medical
- Hospitals, University/organization & administration
- Hospitals, University/statistics & numerical data
- Humans
- Internship and Residency/legislation & jurisprudence
- Societies, Medical
- Spain
- Teaching Materials
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The need of a new training paradigm. THE JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY 2011; 52:1-2. [PMID: 21224804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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[Electrocardiology in Poland - contemporary challenges]. Kardiol Pol 2011; 69:753-754. [PMID: 21769810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Medicare program: hospital outpatient prospective payment system and CY 2011 payment rates; ambulatory surgical center payment system and CY 2011 payment rates; payments to hospitals for graduate medical education costs; physician self-referral rules and related changes to provider agreement regulations; payment for certified registered nurse anesthetist services furnished in rural hospitals and critical access hospitals. Final rule with comment period; final rules; and interim final rule with comment period. FEDERAL REGISTER 2010; 75:71799-72580. [PMID: 21121180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The final rule with comment period in this document revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system and to implement certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Affordable Care Act). In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the prospective payment system. These changes are applicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 2011. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates the revised Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system and to implement certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. In this final rule with comment period, we set forth the applicable relative payment weights and amounts for services furnished in ASCs, specific HCPCS codes to which these changes apply, and other pertinent ratesetting information for the CY 2011 ASC payment system. These changes are applicable to services furnished on or after January 1, 2011. In this document, we also are including two final rules that implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act relating to payments to hospitals for direct graduate medical education (GME) and indirect medical education (IME) costs; and new limitations on certain physician referrals to hospitals in which they have an ownership or investment interest. In the interim final rule with comment period that is included in this document, we are changing the effective date for otherwise eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals that have been reclassified from urban to rural under section 1886(d)(8)(E) of the Social Security Act and 42 CFR 412.103 to receive reasonable cost payments for anesthesia services and related care furnished by nonphysician anesthetists from cost reporting periods beginning on or after October 1, 2010, to December 2, 2010.
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GMC clears doctors of failing to protect trainees and patients from sexually inappropriate behaviour. BMJ 2010; 341:c3571. [PMID: 20603321 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c3571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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[Comparison of the training schemes of the specialization schools of the public health area: a rational basis for a proposal of a core curriculum for the university training programme contained in article 38 of Legislative Decree (D.Lgs) 81/2008]. LA MEDICINA DEL LAVORO 2010; 101:55-72. [PMID: 20415050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A document by the B. Ramazzini College of University Teachers of Occupational Medicine of the Italian Society of Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene (S.I.M.L.I.I). The aim of this document was to compare the professional competence, training profile and core curricula of the three main specialization courses in the Public Health postgraduate medical area, i.e., Occupational Medicine, Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, and Forensic Medicine, such as contained in the Ministerial Decree (D.M) of 1 August 2005. We set out to identify, using clear and objective criteria, the knowledge and skills that specialists in Hygiene or Forensic Medicine must develop, in accordance with Art. 38 of the new Italian law on safety ahd health at work (D.Lgs 81/2008), in order to be authorized to perform occupational health activities as "Competent Physicians" (CP). The comparison revealed significant differences in structure and content among the three courses. In particular, compared to the course in Occupational Medicine, the courses in Hygiene and in Forensic Medicine both lack clinical training, including diagnostic and therapeutic skills, risk-oriented occupational health activities, biological monitoring, assessment of individual susceptibility, and clinical or instrumental procedures to prevent and detect occupational diseases. Furthermore, the specialization course in Hygiene lacks any training regarding the criteria and methods for assessing the individual worker's fitness for work, while the course in Forensic Medicine lacks any training in occupational risk assessment and management. From this comparison, a list was derived of the education and training debits that specialists in Hygiene or Forensic Medicine should cover (credits) in order to be authorized to perform CP activities as indicated by the new law. A core curriculum is proposed here, based on the corresponding credits, for use as a reference.
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