CPMSM UPDATED EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Governing Body - ✔✔Changes in medical staff bylaws are not final until the medical
staff has voted in favor of the changes, and Med exec forwards the recommendation to
the:
✔✔The only Committee required, according to TJC standards - ✔✔Medical Executive
Committee
✔✔If you have a questions regarding whether or not information regarding a practitioner
should be released to a third party, - ✔✔The organizations Attorney is the best resource
to consult.
✔✔A signed consent and release form - ✔✔Prior to releasing information to a third party
regarding a practitioner, the organization should acquire:
✔✔Chief Executive Officer, Governing Body, and Medical Staff - ✔✔The three major
sources of authority in the traditional structure of the hospital organization.
✔✔The governing body of a hospital sets the organizations policy that supports quality
patient care - ✔✔by developing the mission, vision, policies and by laws that govern the
hospital's operations.
, ✔✔CEO responsibilities - ✔✔Keeping the medical staff informed about the hospital's
plans, organizational changes, board polices, and decisions affecting providers and
their patients.
✔✔Medical Director or Vice President of Medical Affairs - ✔✔Title that describes a
physician employed or contracted by the hospital as a top-level management employee
to act as a liaison between the medical staff and hospital administration.
✔✔Providing and evaluating patient care - ✔✔is a function of the Medical Staff
✔✔Bylaws Language for committees - ✔✔Should pay special consideration to the
composition, duties, and frequency of meetings.
✔✔Internist and Hospitalist - ✔✔A hospitalist could be an internist, but an internist is not
necessarily a hospitalist. These two medical specialties are more similar than different.
Hospitalists and internists both practice medicine and treat patients, provide the same
level of care to hospitalized patients, diagnose and treat acute illnesses or perform
various medical procedures while the patient is hospitalized. Hospitalists, however,
confine their practice exclusively to the hospital and often have specialized training in
nonmedical subjects related to that field.
✔✔Internal Medicine - ✔✔Internal medicine is a primary care field. Although some
internists specialize in adolescent medicine, most internists care only for adult patients
who have a variety of diseases, including chronic medical problems such as diabetes or
acute problems such as pneumonia. Internal medicine has a number of subspecialties,
such as infectious disease, rheumatology, gastroenterology and cardiovascular disease.
Internists might see patients in the hospital or perform procedures there, but they spend
most of their days in an office or clinic, where they see multiple patients, many of whom
they care for over an extended period of months or years
✔✔Hospitalist - ✔✔Hospital medicine developed in response to changes in
reimbursement practices and demands on primary care physicians. Many physicians
are unwilling to care for uninsured patients or take hospital calls, and teaching hospitals
have restricted the hours that medical residents are allowed to work. The combination of
these factors created a demand for physicians who could manage hospitalized patients
and be available for emergencies. A hospitalist might see a patient only once in her
lifetime and is more likely to be responsible for hospital-wide quality improvement
efforts. William T. Ford, Ph.D., a hospitalist at Temple University Health System in
Philadelphia, writes in the August 2009 issue of Today's Hospitalist that in many
respects, the hospital itself is his "patient."
✔✔Privileges - ✔✔a term used to describe the access granted and basic framework for
the rights or activities which are specifically provided to individuals by the Medical Staff
of an organization, hospital, or facility.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Governing Body - ✔✔Changes in medical staff bylaws are not final until the medical
staff has voted in favor of the changes, and Med exec forwards the recommendation to
the:
✔✔The only Committee required, according to TJC standards - ✔✔Medical Executive
Committee
✔✔If you have a questions regarding whether or not information regarding a practitioner
should be released to a third party, - ✔✔The organizations Attorney is the best resource
to consult.
✔✔A signed consent and release form - ✔✔Prior to releasing information to a third party
regarding a practitioner, the organization should acquire:
✔✔Chief Executive Officer, Governing Body, and Medical Staff - ✔✔The three major
sources of authority in the traditional structure of the hospital organization.
✔✔The governing body of a hospital sets the organizations policy that supports quality
patient care - ✔✔by developing the mission, vision, policies and by laws that govern the
hospital's operations.
, ✔✔CEO responsibilities - ✔✔Keeping the medical staff informed about the hospital's
plans, organizational changes, board polices, and decisions affecting providers and
their patients.
✔✔Medical Director or Vice President of Medical Affairs - ✔✔Title that describes a
physician employed or contracted by the hospital as a top-level management employee
to act as a liaison between the medical staff and hospital administration.
✔✔Providing and evaluating patient care - ✔✔is a function of the Medical Staff
✔✔Bylaws Language for committees - ✔✔Should pay special consideration to the
composition, duties, and frequency of meetings.
✔✔Internist and Hospitalist - ✔✔A hospitalist could be an internist, but an internist is not
necessarily a hospitalist. These two medical specialties are more similar than different.
Hospitalists and internists both practice medicine and treat patients, provide the same
level of care to hospitalized patients, diagnose and treat acute illnesses or perform
various medical procedures while the patient is hospitalized. Hospitalists, however,
confine their practice exclusively to the hospital and often have specialized training in
nonmedical subjects related to that field.
✔✔Internal Medicine - ✔✔Internal medicine is a primary care field. Although some
internists specialize in adolescent medicine, most internists care only for adult patients
who have a variety of diseases, including chronic medical problems such as diabetes or
acute problems such as pneumonia. Internal medicine has a number of subspecialties,
such as infectious disease, rheumatology, gastroenterology and cardiovascular disease.
Internists might see patients in the hospital or perform procedures there, but they spend
most of their days in an office or clinic, where they see multiple patients, many of whom
they care for over an extended period of months or years
✔✔Hospitalist - ✔✔Hospital medicine developed in response to changes in
reimbursement practices and demands on primary care physicians. Many physicians
are unwilling to care for uninsured patients or take hospital calls, and teaching hospitals
have restricted the hours that medical residents are allowed to work. The combination of
these factors created a demand for physicians who could manage hospitalized patients
and be available for emergencies. A hospitalist might see a patient only once in her
lifetime and is more likely to be responsible for hospital-wide quality improvement
efforts. William T. Ford, Ph.D., a hospitalist at Temple University Health System in
Philadelphia, writes in the August 2009 issue of Today's Hospitalist that in many
respects, the hospital itself is his "patient."
✔✔Privileges - ✔✔a term used to describe the access granted and basic framework for
the rights or activities which are specifically provided to individuals by the Medical Staff
of an organization, hospital, or facility.
