OVERVIEW

Since 1959, the California Medical Association, and more recently, its subsidiary, the Institute for Medical Quality, has been evaluating and providing consultations to individual physicians and hospital medical staff leaders to assist them in achieving and maintaining quality medical care.

NEW PROGRAM IN 2009

Beginning in January of 2009, The Institute for Medical Quality and the California State Personnel Board will convene panels of physicians to serve on Judicial Review Committees for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation physician evidentiary hearings. These hearings are presided over by an Administrative Law Judge appointed by the State Personnel Board (SPB). The Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) is seeking primary care physicians, board certified in either Family Practice or Internal Medicine, to serve on Judicial Review Committees (JRC) for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). These review committees hear evidence regarding the quality of care provided by a CDCR physician. Interested physicians must be available to serve for 5 consecutive days, once or twice per year. Hearings will be scheduled in various geographic locations in California, most probably in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

IMQ physicians credentialed to serve on JRC panels will be employed as Special Consultants to the State, and will be afforded civil liability protection to the same extent as any of Special Consultant. Physicians will be paid on an hourly basis for their time and reimbursed travel expenses. Please contact Leslie Anne Iacopi (liacopi@imq.org) if you may be interested.

For more detailed information and a copy of the application form, please click on "Forms and Documents" above.

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