In addition, we showed that end-of-training standardized test results for these physicianship-related skills are more strongly associated with future use of life-saving screening tests than test results for doctors' knowledge of preventive medicine.
6) Compulsory language and competence tests for doctors working in UK.
One proposal being drawn up would require regular skills tests for doctors who read mammograms.
Impath, which analyzes cancer tests for doctors, won bankruptcy court permission yesterday to pay its unsecured creditors $27 million immediately.
Impath, which analyzes cancer tests for doctors, is investigating whether it improperly overstated money owed by customers.
That is good for the developers of such tests, and it also leaves the medical laboratories in a stronger position -- as the organizations that will perform these new tests for doctors.
Met – The General Medical Council has new powers to conduct language tests for doctors working in the UK. 1) Recruit 3,000 more police officers, paid for by scrapping ID cards, electronic fingerprints on passports, the prison building programme and Whitehall plans to track all emails and internet use.
One pick is Quest Diagnostics, the leading provider of clinical diagnostic tests for doctors and hospitals.
The opponents are pushing for random drug testing for doctors in a ballot initiative in November.
He is now circulating a ballot measure to require mandatory drug and alcohol testing for doctors, force doctors to check the CURES database before prescribing narcotics, and to index for inflation a 38 year old cap on malpractice victims' recovery.
