Credentialing protocols used by internal medicine residency programs in New York State.
In the fall of 1988, the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine established a New York State (NYS) Task Force to assess the impact of the "Report of the New York State Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Emergency Services--Supervision and Residents' Working Conditions." Fifty-eight of the 62 NYS internal medicine residencies were surveyed in 1989 and 21 provided copies of their credentialing protocols. Analysis of these protocols identified eight essentials of a viable credentialing protocol, including five present in a majority of the examined protocols. The study produced a master list of procedures with a corresponding range of certification criteria and confirmed most programs had undergone parallel development of remarkably similar protocols, suggesting that a uniform credentialing system was possible and warranted further study.
Gabryel
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Department of Medicine, Millard Fillmore Hospitals, Buffalo, New York 14209.
Brierley
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D003406:Credentialing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009518:New York