Private Accreditation as a Substitute for Direct Government Regulation in Public Health Insurance Programs: When Is It Appropriate? [PDF]
The appropriateness of the use of private accreditation in regulating and defining the quality of health care providers under government health insurance programs is examined.
Kinney, Eleanor D.
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An exploration of medical student attitudes towards disclosure of mental illness
Background: Medical students are reluctant to access mental health services, despite having high rates of anxiety and depression. This reluctance persists through residency and into practice.
Ian Fletcher +4 more
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Pediatric Residency Training in Türkiye
In our country, the Ministry of Health is involved in the regulation and licensure of postgraduate medical education. The Turkish Medical Association plays a role in specialist training through the Coordination Board of Specialist Associations. There are
Müjgan Alikaşifoğlu
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Making the grade: licensing examination performance by medical school accreditation status
Background Accreditation systems strive to ensure the quality of undergraduate (basic) medical education and encourage ongoing improvements. Despite increasing global emphasis on quality assurance activities, there is limited research linking ...
Marta van Zanten +2 more
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Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 1039 U.S. Physicians Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank for Sexual Misconduct, 2003-2013. [PDF]
Little information exists on U.S. physicians who have been disciplined with licensure or restriction-of-clinical-privileges actions or have had malpractice payments because of sexual misconduct.
Azza AbuDagga +3 more
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Background CPD educators and CME providers would benefit from further insight regarding barriers and supports in obtaining CME, including sources of information about CME.
Maureen O’Brien Pott +4 more
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Can we predict failure in licensure exams from medical students’ undergraduate academic performance?
Background: In 2015, the Medical Council of Canada increased the minimum pass level for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination Part I, and students had a higher rate of failure than in previous years.
Janeve Desy +5 more
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Varying levels of difficulty index of skills-test items randomly selected by examinees on the Korean emergency medical technician licensing examination [PDF]
Purpose: The goal of this study was to characterize the difficulty index of the items in the skills test components of the class I and II Korean emergency medical technician licensing examination (KEMTLE), which requires examinees to select items ...
Bongyeun Koh +9 more
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Overview and current management of computerized adaptive testing in licensing/certification examinations [PDF]
Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) has been implemented in high-stakes examinations such as the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurses in the United States since 1994.
Dong Gi Seo
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ObjectivesMedical Regulatory Authorities (MRAs) provide licences to physicians and monitor those physicians once in practice to support their continued competence.
Kathryn Hodwitz +5 more
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