The increased attention on periodic evaluation of practicing physicians makes it likely that state licensing authorities and other relevant stakeholders will be interested in available resources to evaluate various aspects of physician competence.
As a result, PLAS staff recently modified the research and development agenda and the operational orientation of PLAS to optimize the ability of the program to meet the assessment needs of practicing physicians in the next five to ten years.
Therefore, the NBME and the FSMB are phasing out delivery of PLAS assessment services at their offices in order to focus on developing collaborative relationships with national assessment programs that have the capability to provide localized, performance-based assessments in conjunction with the standardized assessment tools developed through the PLAS.
Collaboration with local programs allows for a more comprehensive assessment that can be tailored to the individual physician’s practice and enables the physician to obtain assessment at a national center that is more geographically convenient.
Since the majority of collaborators are associated with medical schools and training programs, education and remediation can also be incorporated as part of the assessment process:
Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program (PACE)
UCSD School of Medicine/Medical Center
200 West Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8204
(619) 543-5478 Office
(619) 543-2353 Fax
Peter Boal
pboal@ucsd.edu
http://www.paceprogram.ucsd.edu/
COLORADO
Center for Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP)
7351 Lowry Boulevard, Suite 100
Denver, Colorado 80230
(303) 577-3232 Office
(303) 577-3241 Fax
Elizabeth Korinek, MPH
cpep@cpepdoc.org
http://www.cpepdoc.org
Florida Competency Advancement Program
P.O. Box 100254
Gainesville, FL 32610
(352) 846-3292 Office
Nikolaus Gravenstein, MD
NGravenstein@anest.ufl.edu
Upstate New York Clinical Competency Center at Albany Medical College
MC #34
47 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, NY 12208
(518) 262-5919 Office
(518) 262-5029 Fax
Henry Pohl, MD
PohlH@mail.amc.edu
PMSCO Healthcare Consulting
777 East Park Drive, P.O. Box 69067
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17106-9067
(717) 561-9300 Office
(717) 561-9339 Fax
Marcia A. Lammando, RN, BSN, MHSA
mlammando@consultpmsco.com
http://www.consultpmsco.com
KSTAR (Knowledge Skills Training Assessment and Research)
3833 Texas Avenue - Suite 150
Bryan, TX 77802
979-862-5001 Office
979-862-5015 Fax
Kathy Mechler
Mechler@tamhsc.edu
http://www.rchitexas.org
University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine & Public Health
OCPD
750 Highland Avenue, Room 3359
Madison, WI 53705
(608) 263-6637
Cathy Means
cjmeans@ocpd.wisc.edu
http://www.cme.wisc.edu