Here in Hawaii, there was a recent Hepatitis A outbreak. It happened around the end of June or so, into July. It was recently discovered that the outbreak came from raw scallops shipped in from the Phillipines. Unfortunately, this batch of scallops went to Genki Sushi. This sushi chain is relatively common on Oahu and people seem to like it. It has a conveyor belt style (kaiten zushi or kuru kuru sushi) that is pretty common in […]
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This is the third part in the Physician Contracts series. Please read 1 and 2 before reading this one. This post will focus on more complex private practice and partnership-type contracts, in a very general sense. Please note that there is wide variation in these kinds of contracts, with the larger variability coming from the specialty involved and the location of the practice. That said, let’s jump in. Partnership So the idea of partnership comes in […]
Physician Contracts Part Three
So, in my previous post The Track, I talked about “The Track” of medicine. I mentioned someone I knew who had “fallen off The Track” who despite his best efforts, had never really recovered. Also, if you read my prior post Caribbean Medical Schools or my About page, that I had also fallen off “The Track”. So now let’s break down what happens when you fall off the track (at least in my opinion): I think […]
Falling off the Track
So in my last post, I touched upon Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Now, in the recent news, information came out that the American Medical Association (AMA) has called for an immediate end to the MOC from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Their official stance, as it currently stands, is here on their site. However, you may notice the language utilized in their official stance is more focused on partnership and improvement of MOC, rather than its […]
Maintenance of Certification – AMA Update
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Ok, first of all, what is “maintenance of certification”? After 4 years of medical school, 1 year of internship, 4 years of residency, passing my board exam, and then doing a year of fellowship, I thought I was “done” with “all this stuff” [insert hand waving here]. Please understand that I knew I would have to keep learning, since the practice of medicine is a life-long learning profession, but I was […]
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
*What is “The Track”? “The Track” is the road to being a physician. Every step of the way you are on “the track”. *What do you mean? Well, when one decides to become a physician, they have given themselves a direction and placed them firmly on “the track”. This decision can come as young as the classic “I’ve always wanted to be a physician” or as old as “I hate my current job and missed […]