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 ...

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, ...

Utah legislators advanced a bill to the state Senate Feb. 26 that would prohibit hospitals and health systems in the state from testing a physician's competency through a cognitive test after they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted in its June meeting that the time has come to address the issue of aging physicians more systematically, perhaps with formal guidelines and ...

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 ...

Should older physicians be forced to stop practicing once they begin to slow down? Some experts in competency testing are calling for doctors to be evaluated as early as age 65, arguing that that's ...