Hospitals can now request IMQ physician surveyors for accreditation surveys The California Medical Association’s (CMA) Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) recently signed a contract with The Joint Commission that allows California acute care hospitals to choose whether they want an IMQ physician surveyor to participate in their accreditation surveys. Hospitals with survey anniversary dates in 2015 have until August 15 to indicate their selection. If they do not actively request an IMQ surveyor, IMQ will not participate on their survey. Since the 1970s, IMQ has participated in hospital licensure and accreditation surveys in partnership with the Joint Commission and the ... August 8, 2014 General IMQ, Institute for Medical Quality, Joint Commission, Hospital Accreditation 0 0 Comment Read More »
IMQ Expands Peer Review Services Does your medical staff need help with peer review? The Institute for Medical Quality is expanding its services to include Clinical Case Review of individual cases and Judicial Review services in addition to our existing Comprehensive Peer Review services. Through off-site patient chart review, an IMQ Clinical Case Review consultation provides an objective evaluation of the clinical practice of one or more physician members of a hospital medical staff, physician group, or ambulatory care practice through peer review of selected cases. IMQ's involvement is especially helpful when an organization will ... July 7, 2014 General IMQ, Peer Review Services, Institute for Medical Quality 0 0 Comment Read More »
IMQ launches online course on reporting child abuse and neglect The California Medical Association Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) is offering a new online course to prepare physicians for identifying and reporting suspected cases of child abuse and neglect. This program, "Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect," is offered through a joint partnership with the Child Abuse Prevention Center, an international training, education, research and resource center dedicated to protecting children and building healthy families. Participants can earn 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Click here to register. IMQ Online Education provides access to courses for AMA PRA Category ... March 20, 2014 General Institute for Medical Quality, Education and Events 0 0 Comment Read More »
Professionalism courses for physicians and pharmacists coming in February The Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) Professionalism Program for Physicians has been scheduled for February 22-23 at the DoubleTree Hotel LAX-El Segundo in Los Angeles. This program addresses both the legal and ethical dimensions of the practice of medicine in California, and introduces participants to a range of resources to address present or future problems. The course consists of a pre-course assessment, a two-day ethics course and a series of longitudinal assessments to track participants’ progress. To ensure interactive learning, each program is limited to 12 participants. IMQ is also offering ... January 27, 2014 General IMG, Institute for Medical Quality, Education and Events 0 0 Comment Read More »
Stepping Up to Leadership Training, March 6-8, 2014 The Stepping Up to Leadership program was created by the Institute for Medical Quality and the PACE Program at the University of California at San Diego in response to a commonly expressed need for better, more practical hands-on training for medical staff leaders. “For years, physicians asked for a program that would empower them to take on leadership roles,” said William Norcross, MD, founder of the PACE Program and an originator of the conference. A grant from The Physicians Foundation helped the conference’s organizers meet their goal of making ... November 15, 2013 General IMQ, Institute for Medical Quality, medical staff leaders, PACE Program, Stepping Up to Leadership 0 0 Comment Read More »
IMQ Launches Online CME Member Benefit The California Medical Association’s Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) has launched IMQ Online Education, a new source of continuing medical education. IMQ Online Education offers physicians a growing selection of courses, including many needed to maintain licensure, accessible at any time and from any internet-enabled device. Members receive discounted rates on the entire catalog of online CME. IMQ Online Education offers access to a diverse catalog of courses in a variety of formats, lengths and credit levels, organized by subject category for easy browsing. The system is convenient: start a ... August 13, 2013 General CME, IMQ, Institute for Medical Quality 0 0 Comment Read More »
