Seminar: Patient Safety and The Aging Physician: What’s right, what’s fair.
Explore the need for hospital-driven, age-based competency screening for physicians — and the keys to implementing a successful program
Program Highlights
Aging Practitioner Screening: Experience at The UVA Health System
It’s irrefutable that neurocognitive function often declines with age, and individuals including physicians are not always aware of this decline. Consequently, healthcare leaders from coast to coast are considering the implementation of age-based competency screening for physicians. The thing is, both patients and practitioners suffer serious consequences when hospitals wait for adverse patient care events before revising privileges. Dr. Syverud will outline how the University of Virginia Health System implemented a proactive practitioner screening program designed to help protect patients, while maintaining the dignity and legacies of longtime physicians.
Aging Physicians: Licensed for Life
Physician complaints and adverse events due to age-related care issues are anything but everyday occurrences in Northern New England. Yet they do, indeed, happen. Mr. Smith will review the Maine experience with case studies, data and a discussion of emerging trends in this sensitive area of risk management for the medical profession.
Formal Policies: The Touchstone That Fosters Consistent, Fair Treatment and Positive Outcomes
Reacting to an adverse event in the absence of formal policies can lead to hurried and ill-informed decisions that can compound a troublesome situation. Having policies and procedures in place can assist medical staffs in addressing potential age-related issues in a timely and equitable manner that avoids unfairly singling out a colleague and improves the possibility of positive outcomes for everyone.
Presenters
Speakers Include: Scott A. Syverud, MD
University of Virginia Health System
Dennis E. Smith
Executive Director
Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine
Taylor D. Fawns, Esq.
Kozak & Gayer, P.A.
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