Sunday, December 5, 2010

Medical Staff Development - physician profile

The joint commission promotes a profile of six competencies for physicians on staff.

http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag_app/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/Article/data/03MAR2009/090310HHN_Online_Johnson&domain=HHNMAG

Interestingly, alignment on the hospital mission is not a core competency. Its hard to imagine someone working effectively in automobile manufacture who was incompetent to contribute in some way to the construction of the automobile. Why should it be acceptable that physicians aren't aligned? The Joint Commission's competencies are the competencies of cure, but patients want to be healed. Why aren't healing competencies thought to be important for physicians? Maybe its time to rethink our expectations for physicians.

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