QUESTION:
We’ve been sending our Medical Staff leaders to your seminars for years.  However, we think it might be helpful for our “rank and file” Medical Staff members to also get some education on issues like why professionalism counts – and how it could send their careers down the drain if they don’t mind their p’s and q’s. Is this type of education available from HSM?

ANSWER FROM HORTYSPRINGER ATTORNEY IAN DONALDSON:
It is.  While most of our educational offerings (seminars, on-sites, webinars, etc.) are focused on Medical Staff leaders, we have also worked with hospitals and systems to develop tailored educational programs for the general members of their Medical Staff.

Sometimes these programs are integrated into a regularly scheduled Medical Staff meeting, but we’ve also been asked to create specialized programs that are presented (sometimes multiple times over the course of several days) as stand-alone educational sessions that allow general Medical Staff members the opportunity to obtain CME on topics such as EMTALA, impairment issues, and (of course) why professionalism counts.

If this type of specialized training could benefit your Medical Staff, please reach out to our Program Coordinator Jennifer Skeel. Jennifer can work with you and one of our attorneys to develop a tailored program for your organization.

If you have a quick question about these educational programs, you can also e-mail Ian Donaldson at IDonaldson@hortyspringer.com.