The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Stanford (Calif.) Hospital and Clinics, and Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, have recently established physician ability testing policies. At Driscoll and the University of Virginia Health System, physicians over 70 must undergo tests. Stanford physicians over 75 have to be tested, according to the report.
Other hospitals are opposed to testing their physicians based on age. Opponents say a physician’s fitness to practice is already reviewed about every two years, when hospitals choose to renew a physician’s privileges, according to the report.
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