PMID- 20388815
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100430
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1930-7837 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0337 (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 4
DP  - 2010 Apr
TI  - A faculty group practice-driven credentialing and privileging infrastructure in a 
      school of dental medicine.
PG  - 417-22
AB  - Credentialing and assigning clinical privileges are well-established practices in 
      institutions that need to verify a clinician's ability to provide direct patient 
      care services. The credentialing process verifies a provider's credentials to 
      practice his or her profession, while privileging authorizes the individual to 
      perform enumerated procedures within a specific scope of practice. All clinical 
      faculty members at Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) practice in the 
      Faculty Group Practice (FGP). Because of the number of practitioners in the FGP, 
      the organization instituted a more formal process of credentialing that verifies 
      that practitioners are not only licensed to practice, but also are competent to 
      provide direct patient care. In contrast to other dental schools that have 
      established similar protocols, HSDM approached the process not from the academic 
      side, but rather from the clinical practice side, explicitly taking into account 
      whether the FGP could accommodate another practitioner when an academic 
      department wished to appoint a new faculty member. In doing so, we had to be 
      careful to reconcile our educational and research needs with those of the FGP. In 
      this article, we describe how, within this framework, we established a 
      credentialing and privileging program in which all full- and part-time faculty 
      members, as well as advanced graduate students, were included.
FAU - Kalenderian, Elsbeth
AU  - Kalenderian E
AD  - Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental 
      Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA. elsbeth_kalenderian@hsdm.harvard.edu
FAU - Friedland, Bernard
AU  - Friedland B
FAU - White, Robert R
AU  - White RR
FAU - Zavras, Athanasios
AU  - Zavras A
FAU - Da Silva, John D
AU  - Da Silva JD
FAU - Timothe, Peggy
AU  - Timothe P
FAU - Gallucci, German
AU  - Gallucci G
FAU - Donoff, Bruce R
AU  - Donoff BR
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dent Educ
JT  - Journal of dental education
JID - 8000150
SB  - IM
MH  - American Dental Association
MH  - Boston
MH  - Clinical Competence
MH  - Credentialing/*standards
MH  - Faculty, Dental/*standards
MH  - Group Practice, Dental/*standards
MH  - Humans
MH  - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
MH  - Medical Staff Privileges/*standards
MH  - Quality Assurance, Health Care/*methods
MH  - Schools, Dental
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2010/04/15 06:00
MHDA- 2010/05/01 06:00
CRDT- 2010/04/15 06:00
PHST- 2010/04/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/04/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/05/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 74/4/417 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dent Educ. 2010 Apr;74(4):417-22.