The American Medical Foundation for Peer Review & Education, (AMF), is the leading consulting agency in the United States for hospital and medical staff peer review and on-site physician continuing education.

• Since 1987, the Foundation has been conducting good faith medical staff peer review and assessment of institutional quality of care and physician competency. We are the national leader in the independent review of physician and specialty services. We have worked with medical institutions, healthcare corporations, state licensing agencies, the Federal and State Governments, HMOs and PPOs.

• We have assisted over 2,000 hospitals in 50 states achieve higher standards of patient care through fair and objective peer evaluations, specialty department review and education, credentialing support, on-site physician education and continuous quality improvement.

• Our distinguished consultants review charts; conduct on-site reviews and educational preceptor programs; mediate and arbitrate problems of both individual practitioners and entire specialty services, and offer the continued guidance that facilitates critical decisions.

• We have reviewed urban and rural institutions, private and academic hospitals, and facilities ranging in size from 20 to more than 1,000 beds. We have been successful in resolving quality-of care and physician staff issues, interdepartmental conflicts, and consequences of faulty leadership in both community and teaching hospitals. We have assisted problematic hospital residency programs with complex attending issues utilizing our Residency Program Consultation Council (RPCC) . We are called upon by state licensing agencies assessing quality-of-care in carrying out and setting regulations.

• As a non-profit foundation, we received grants every year for more than 13 years from the C.V. Starr Foundation which enabled us to assist more than 130 small and hospitals that would otherwise have been unable to afford impartial peer review. We are currently seeking grants to continue this service.

Our division, the Foundation for Advanced Medical Education, (FAME), was created to assist in the resolution of the problems discovered by peer review of physicians utilizing new procedures and technology. In 2001, FAME received a $2,000,000 grant from the Philadelphia Health Care Trust to create an innovative methodology to be used as a template for future training and retraining of practicing community surgeons. FAME is administering this grant, being implemented by six prestigious specialty societies including, the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Society of Thoracic Surgeons/the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (STS/AATS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCA&I). Several of these publications describing this method and the results are available on our web site and can be accessed by visiting Publications.

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