IOM considers licensing, medical education reforms

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The Institute of Medical (IOM) describes various assessment reports to evaluate clinical skills for relicensing application. The report calls for a collective effort by all health care disciplines to improve patient safety and health care quality by focusing on the set of core competencies in education.

General services, Management dynamics, HEALTH SERVICES, Management, Safety and security measures, Licensing, certification and accreditation, Patients, Company business management, Medical education, Educational reform

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Colo. seeks to end doctor oversight of nurse anesthetists

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Colorado wants to take advantage of the federal program initiated in 2001 that allows certified registered nurse anesthetists to work without physician supervision. Physician supervision had been required by Medicare.

Colorado, Health insurance industry, Nurse and physician, Nurse-physician relationship, Medicare, Nurse anesthetists

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Visa complications snare physicians; hospitals scramble

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The difficulties of residency status for foreign physicians in the US are discussed.

Personnel administration, Human resource management, Emigration and immigration, Visas, Company personnel management, Physicians, Foreign, Foreign physicians

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