Improving employee competency testing in long-term care facilities can help reduce rehospitalizations, cut down on workplace injuries and boost overall resident care, an expert told a national ...

At the American Medical Association s annual meeting, officials said they are developing mandatory competency guidelines for aging physicians. With more than a quarter of doctors over the age of 65, ...

Several experts are calling for competency testing for physicians aged 65 years or older. Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) met this past June to discuss guidelines for testing older ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- A set of guiding principles from an American Medical Association council on assessing the competency of senior/late career physicians failed to gain adoption at the AMA's ...

Medical doctors are becoming victims of age discrimination in Las Vegas. So asserts Dr. Dale Carrison, the 77-year-old chief of staff at University Medical Center and the hospital’s head of emergency ...

It's not uncommon for physicians to push back against age-based competency testing or even go so far as to call the practice discriminatory. Proponents of screening, however, argue that it's a ...

Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing ...

Skillsarena have announced that The UK based law firm Pinsents, have recently signed up to their on-line competency testing. James Coe, skillsarena's Sales Director, comments: We are delighted to be ...