Assessing and Supporting Late Career Practitioners: Four Key Questions

Authors

Andrew A. White
William M. Sage, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow
Kathleen M. Mazor
Thomas H. Gallagher

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2020

Journal Title

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

ISSN

1553- 7250

DOI

10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.07.001

Abstract

You are a hospital medical director who became concerned about a 75-year-old surgeon. Local quality leaders detected a string of unanticipated adverse outcomes and questioned whether aging had impaired the individual's performance. Colleagues had not intervened, hoping that the surgeon's self-awareness of limitations would suffice. The physician retired after a protracted and adversarial practice evaluation. You wonder whether a late career practitioners (LCP) program could identify similar practitioners earlier, avoid harm to patients, and perhaps safely extend LCPs’ careers.

First Page

591

Last Page

595

Num Pages

5

Volume Number

46

Issue Number

10

Publisher

Elsevier

Recommended Citation

Andrew A. White, William M. Sage, Kathleen M. Mazor & Thomas H. Gallagher, Assessing and Supporting Late Career Practitioners: Four Key Questions, 46 Joint Comm'n J. on Quality & Patient Safety 591 (2020).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1629