PLAS Assessment Collaborators

Program:

Length: 3-5 days

Cost: $16,000 - $19,000

Final Report: Four (4) weeks following completion of all program components

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams including CCS/TSR
• 360 assessment
• Oral clinical exam
• Medical record/chart review
• Practice profile
• History & Physical Skills exam
• Health exam & Cognitive function screening
• Exit interview
• Clinical Observation with UC San Diego  Faculty (matched by specialty)
• Clinical Skills Simulation(s) - various specialties
• Final grade and recommendations specific to each individual participant.

Possible recommendations include:

• Specific CME courses 
• Proctoring of practice or cases
• Ongoing, on-site, in-practice medical record and practice monitoring and insight (PEP Program)
• Customized CME
• Independent self-study

CME Courses:

• Medical Record Keeping
• Prescribing
• Anger Management
• Professional Boundaries
• Communication Workshop
• Customized CME Programs (developed for specific needs)

Program:

Length: 1-2 days

Cost:  $9,000 - $14,000

Final Report: approx. 8 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams (No Primum/CCS/TSR)
• COMVEX exam
• Matched specialty clinical interviews (more than 250 community and university-based board-certified physicians)
• Review of patient charts (20-40 charts from practice)
• Fetal Monitor Strip interpretation
• ECG Interpretation
• Simulated patient encounter and review of progress notes
• Cognitive function screening
• Review of health information
• Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Exam (appropriate to practice)
• Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) Exam (appropriate to practice)
• “Difficult Airway Simulation” (appropriate to practice)
• Emergency Medicine Simulation (appropriate to practice) 

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Offers customized education intervention including development of education plan, monitoring of progress and regular reports to referring organization. Education activities arranged in participant's home community.
• Education remediation takes from 6-12 months, depending on needs.

Other Programs:

• Reentry into Clinical Practice Program (RCP)
• Practice Monitoring

CME Courses:

• Medical Record Keeping Seminar
• ProBE/Ethics - Ethics and Boundaries Program
• Prescribing Controlled Drugs: Critical Issues and Common Pitfalls©
• Improving Inter-Professional Communication: Working Effectively in Medical Teams
• Advanced Skills in Clinician -Patient Communication 

Program:

Length: 2-3 days

Cost:  varies; dependent on assessment needs

Final Report: 8-10 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams
• Chart stimulated recall Exam
• Standardized Patient Examination
• Psychological Evaluation

Assessments are tailored based on circumstances and specialty.

Follow-Up Education Options:

Remediation:

• Specific CME recommendations
• Recommendations for supervision of practice (variable levels)
• Experiential learning
• Psychiatric/psychological treatment for identified mental illness (if one is identified)

Program:

Length: 1-2 days

Cost:  $9500

Final Report: 8-12 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams including CCS/TSR
• Standardized patient and recall
• Chart stimulated recall discussion
• Test stimulated discussion
• Cognitive function screening

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Varies based on participant's need

Program:

Length: 1-2 days

Cost:  $9,000 - $14,000

Final Report: approx. 8 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams (No Primum/CCS/TSR)
• COMVEX exam 
• Matched specialty clinical interviews (more than 250 community and university-based board-certified physicians)
• Review of patient charts (20-40 charts from practice)
• Fetal Monitor Strip interpretation
• ECG Interpretation
• Simulated patient encounter and review of progress notes
• Cognitive function screening
• Review of health information
• Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Exam (appropriate to practice)
• Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) Exam (appropriate to practice)
• “Difficult Airway Simulation” (appropriate to practice)
• Emergency Medicine Simulation (appropriate to practice) 

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Offers customized education intervention including development of education plan, monitoring of progress and regular reports to referring organization. Education activities arranged in participant's home community.
• Education remediation takes from 6-12 months, depending on needs.

Other Programs:

• Reentry into Clinical Practice Program (RCP)
• Practice Monitoring

CME Courses:

• Medical Record Keeping Seminar
• ProBE/Ethics - Ethics and Boundaries Program
• Prescribing Controlled Drugs: Critical Issues and Common Pitfalls©
• Improving Inter-Professional Communication: Working Effectively in Medical Teams
• Advanced Skills in Clinician -Patient Communication 

Program:

Length: Preceptorship is offered in 6 week blocks. The recommended duration varies – i.e., 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 18 weeks, ...

Cost: Tuition for 6-week block is $7,500. Assessment is an additional $2,000-6,000

Final Report: 4-6 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams including CCS/TSR
• 360-dgree assessment which includes self- and peer assessment
• Standardized Patients (4-6 or more): interviewing, physical exam, medical reasoning, patient communication and documentation
• Medical documentation including oral presentation and medical reasoning
• Simulated patients (intermittently depending on specialty
• Virtual Online Patients
• Online essay & MCQs on communication skills, medical knowledge, and clinical reasoning
• Presentation skills

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Assessments are followed by a structured educational Preceptorship in a university setting with other learners (students, residents, fellows) individualized for the physician’s needs. Assessments continue throughout the duration of the Preceptorship including a final assessment at the end of the program.

Program:

Length: Assessment components can typically be completed over a period of  1-3 days once scheduled. Typical length of full program is 3-6 months, depending on additional preceptorships that may be required.

Cost:  $8,500-$10,000 for full program (can be higher or lower depending on components required.)

Final Report: Four (4) weeks following completion of all program components.

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams including CCS/TSR
• Neurocognitive assessment
• Independent medical exam
• Functional capacity exam
• Standardized patients
• Simulation laboratory
• Preceptorship
• Proctorship
• Inter-rater reliability study
• Medical records documentation review
• Peer review
• Coding audits
• Professionalism assessment
• Communication skills learning

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Customized remediation recommendations are offered
• Retesting of PLAS examinations, if necessary and available

CME Courses

• Opioid Prescribing Practices
• Coding/Billing Medical Records Documentation
• Professional Boundaries

Program:

Assessments are done at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Simulations Center on Hwy 47 in Bryan, TX.

Length: 2 days

Cost: contact program for pricing information

Final Report: 6 weeks

Assessment Components:

• PLAS exams
• 360 assessment
• Review of peer reviewed records
• Standardized patients
• Cognitive function screening
• Additional tests per specialty may be included

Follow-Up Education Options:

• Individualized Educational Plans
• 90 day Residency at UTMB in Galveston
• Continuous Record Monitoring (monthly)