2. B. GENERAL CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT, REAPPOINTMENT, AND CLINICAL PRIVILEGES
2. B. 1. Basic Responsibilities and Requirements:
As a condition of being granted appointment, reappointment or clinical privileges and as a condition of ongoing appointment and clinical privileges, consistent with the Bylaws, every individual specifically agrees to the following 4:
( a) to provide continuous and timely care;
( b) to abide by the Medical Staff Governance Documents and the policies of the Hospital, and any revisions or amendments thereto;
( c) to participate in Medical Staff affairs through committee service( to include eligibility to serve on the MEC regardless of discipline or specialty), participation in performance improvement and peer review activities, compliance with requests from the Medical Staff Services for administrative needs, and performing such other reasonable duties and responsibilities as may be assigned;
( d) to provide emergency call coverage, consultations, and care for unassigned patients;
( e) to participate in personal or phone interviews in regard to an application for initial appointment, reappointment, or privileges, if requested;
( f) to comply with clinical practice or evidence-based protocols pertinent to their medical specialty, as may be adopted by the MEC or document the clinical reasons for variance;
( g) to comply with all applicable training and educational protocols that may be adopted by the MEC or Board, including, but not limited to, those involving, electronic medical records, computerized physician order entry, privacy and security of protected health information, patient safety, and infection prevention, and to submit copies of compliance with these requests to the Medical Staff Services;
( h) to obtain, when requested, an appropriate fitness for practice evaluation, which may include diagnostic testing( e. g., blood, urine, or hair testing) or a complete physical, psychiatric, or behavioral evaluation, as set forth in this Manual or other Medical Staff policy;
( i) to obtain, when requested, an evaluation of current clinical competence by a consultant or program selected by the Hospital;
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The provisions that are italicized above are also in the Bylaws..
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