Physician Accountability and Medicus Integra©

Abstract

By virtue of their education, training, roles, and responsibilities, physicians are individually and corporately accountable for the quality, safety, and experience of patients who access the healthcare system. Medical licensure, specialty board certification, clinical peer review, the malpractice tort system, and popular publication of physician performance are each part of a disconnected system that touch upon physician accountability for medical care. The Medicus Integra© program, sponsored by the Coalition for Physician Wellbeing, promotes lifelong learning, responsible monitoring of professional performance, interdisciplinary clinical teamwork, and intentional physician wellbeing.

Medicine is, at its center, a moral enterprise grounded in a covenant of trust.– Stern and Papadikis (2006)