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Licensure, Certification, and Credentialing

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Simulation has the potential to provide a more objective measurement of clinical performance. It is currently being used to some extent to evaluate all levels of providers in our specialty at multiple steps along the training continuum and is rapidly becoming part of licensure, certification, and credentialing.

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  1. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    E. Britton Chahine

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Shad Deering

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Tamika C. Auguste

  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Dena Goffman

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Britton Chahine, E. (2019). Licensure, Certification, and Credentialing. In: Deering, S., Auguste, T., Goffman, D. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Obstetrics and Gynecology. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98995-2_7

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