Physician Enhancement Program (PEP)
Physician Enhancement Program (PEP)
What is the Physician Enhancement Program?
The Physician Enhancement Program (PEP) is an on-site, in-practice mentoring program designed to assist the practicing physician in attaining the highest standards of professional growth and clinical excellence. It provides longitudinal assessment, education, and practice-based improvement to participating physicians. The Medical Board of California recognizes PEP as an official alternative to having a practice monitor. The program is a minimum of one year.
The Physician Enhancement Program (PEP) includes the following components:
The on-site visit includes a site assessment, longitudinal chart review,
interview, patient visit observation, etc. and site visit every six months
for the duration of the program using standardized instruments and processes.
Site visits are conducted by a PEP faculty mentor, typically a member of
the faculty of the UCSD School of Medicine.
The PPDP is created jointly by PEP faculty mentor and participant. The
PPDP may contain a combination of elements including recommendations
for the implementation of systems-based practice improvements, a Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) prescription, ongoing measurable Performance
Improvement (PI) projects, etc. The primary objective of the PPDP is to
teach physicians the process of self-managed continuous quality improvement
and objectively measure the results.
The PEP faculty mentor will review your professional growth and development using the comprehensive PACE Intake instrument and other measures of continuing education, health behaviors, lifestyle variables and other factors that may affect performance.
The PEP faculty mentor will review your professional growth and development using the comprehensive PACE Intake instrument and other measures of continuing education, health behaviors, lifestyle variables and other factors that may affect performance.
On a monthly basis, participants will submit a number of randomly selected
chart entries to be reviewed by their mentor using standardized methodologies
and instruments.
After the PEP faculty mentor has conducted the monthly chart audit, a phone
call will be scheduled between the PEP faculty mentor and participant to discuss
progress on documentation, quality of care, and the Personal and Practice
Development plan.
PEP faculty will provide brief summary reports on a monthly basis. On a
quarterly basis they will provide detailed reports summarizing progress
in the program and further recommendations.
The PULSE (which stands for Physicians Universal Leadership Skills Education) is a 360-type survey created by the Physicians Development
Program and normed on over 750 physicians. It is administered to PACE participants and their colleagues and healthcare team members in
order to assess motivating behaviors, disruptive behaviors and the six general core competencies. The results of the survey are scored
and compiled into a report to demonstrate how the participant is perceived, both by himself and the community, in which he works. The
survey is first completed after initial enrollment and then again approximately six months afterwards to measure improvement.