Denver / Colorado / United States
Since that time, over 1, 100 physicians representing 47 specialties have benefited from this nationally-recognized alternative to punitive procedures or adversarial action. Referring organizations include state medical boards, hospitals, medical groups, physician health programs, health attorneys, and disability insurers. Self-referred physicians can also participate. The CPEP approach to physician evaluation and assessment of competence and performance issues is based on three major components that parallel the three-part medical model of assessing needs, designing and implementing an intervention, and then evaluating its effectiveness. This in-depth assessment is tailored to the physician s specialty and practice, and provides detailed information about clinical competence in the areas of medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, documentation, communications, and cognitive function while also identifying areas of educational need. Educational Intervention
