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 ...

After testing more than 70 adolescents in the Grand Forks County juvenile court system, University of North Dakota researchers have concluded that courts nationwide should take steps to ensure that ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As millions of Americans approach age 66, they face the inevitable question, is it time to retire? The physician population is aging alongside the general population – more than 40% of physicians in ...

As part of its ongoing initiative to regulate previously unenrolled tax return preparers, the IRS announced on Tuesday that competency testing for registered tax return preparers will start next week ...