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Amer­i­can Medical Foundation (AMF)
A Non-Profit Agency for Exter­nal Peer Review
• Physi­cian Peer Review
• Medical Staff Peer Review
• Hos­pi­tal Qual­ity of Care Review

Spe­cialty Depart­ment Assess­ment of:
• Inter­ven­tional Car­di­ol­ogy
• Car­diac Surgery
• Radi­ol­ogy
• Pathol­ogy
• Emer­gency Med­i­cine
• All Sur­gi­cal Sub-Specialties and more
Aca­d­e­mic Hos­pi­tal Assistance
The only non– profit orga­ni­za­tion, expe­ri­enced in advis­ing on the unique prob­lems of aca­d­e­mic insti­tu­tions, such as com­plex attend­ing issues, spe­cialty cre­den­tial­ing and depart­ment reorganization.
Hos­pi­tals & Part Time Physicians
This is a chal­lenge fac­ing all hos­pi­tals as cer­tain aspects of medical prac­tice changes and evolves, reduc­ing the con­tact of cer­tain spe­cial­ists with hos­pi­tals where they may have pre­vi­ously been more active. How­ever good prac­tices requires that hos­pi­tals have enough infor­ma­tion about a prac­ti­tioner before reap­point­ing them.  Read more >
Res­i­dency Pro­gram Con­sul­ta­tion Council
We can assist you in deter­min­ing the rea­sons behind any adverse actions pro­mul­gated by the ACGME.  Read more >

Foundation for Advanced Medical Education
A Non-Profit Agency for Physi­cian Education
• FAME
• On-Site Physi­cian Education
• Pre­cep­tor Pro­grams
• Prac­ti­tioner Skill Assess­ment
• Cre­den­tial­ing Assis­tance
• FAME Grant Announce­ment
• Sur­gi­cal Tele­men­tor­ing Grant
• Pub­li­ca­tions
News — Tele­men­tor­ing In Surgery
Announce­ment: Sur­gi­cal Tele­men­tor­ing Schol­ar­ships for Bariatric Surgery.
AMF and SAGES spon­sors the first spe­cialty soci­ety tele­men­tor­ing study for prac­tic­ing sur­geons: A Sleeve Gas­trec­tomy Project  
Read more and apply for a Schol­ar­ship >
AMF Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Eve­lyn Baram-Clothier, deliv­ered a Keynote Address to the Fed­er­a­tion of State Medical Boards 100th Anniver­sary Meet­ing on April 28, 2012. She pre­sented the Bryant Galusha Lec­ture on the ben­e­fits of Tele­men­tor­ing on Post Grad­u­ate Physi­cian Education, Patient Out­comes and Patient Safety.
AMF Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Eve­lyn Baram-Clothier, gave a Keynote Address on Tele­men­tor­ing and Post Grad­u­ate Physi­cian Education at the Annual Meet­ing of the Coun­cil of Medical Spe­cialty Soci­eties Novem­ber 19, 2012


Expert Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Ser­vice Sup­port for Over Two Decades
Inter­ven­tional Car­di­ol­ogy Peer Review

The aca­d­e­mic lead­ers in Inter­ven­tional Car­di­ol­ogy have worked for 23 years with the non­profit Amer­i­can Medical Foundation (AMF) to pro­vide inde­pen­dent peer review of car­di­ol­o­gists and car­diac catheter­i­za­tion lab­o­ra­to­ries. AMF has per­formed more than 380 high qual­ity reviews for aca­d­e­mic medical cen­ters and com­mu­nity hos­pi­tals. Our review­ers ded­i­cate their time to help labs achieve the high­est level of patient safety through improve­ment in qual­ity and appro­pri­ate­ness (AUC Guidelines).

Amer­i­can Medical Foundation Three-Tiered Approach

1. Our par­ent orga­ni­za­tion, the Amer­i­can Medical Foundation for Peer Review and Education, (AMF), pro­vides good faith physi­cian and medical staff peer review, spe­cialty depart­ment assess­ment, and fully inte­grated, entire hos­pi­tal quality-of care eval­u­a­tion for insti­tu­tions faced with qual­ity concerns.
2. If requested, the Foundation for Advanced Medical Education, (FAME), pro­vides effec­tive post peer review, on-site mon­i­tor­ing and proc­tor­ing of clin­i­cal prac­tice tech­niques, on-site education, and pre­cep­tor­ship pro­grams for train­ing physi­cians uti­liz­ing new medical devices, pro­ce­dures and other ther­a­peu­tic inter­ven­tions, and pro­vides assis­tance with credentialing.

Our Res­i­dency Pro­gram Con­sul­ta­tion Coun­cil (RPCC) will assist in deal­ing with adverse actions pro­mul­gated by the ACGME.
3. For insti­tu­tions need­ing addi­tional solu­tions to their prob­lems, we offer arbi­tra­tion, medi­a­tion, and expert hear­ing offi­cers. When requested, the Foundation will work with hos­pi­tal coun­sel to help avoid legal pit­falls and to assure due process for physi­cians involved in peer review and hearings.


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