Expert Medical Consultants, Inc
12. The Generic Medical Specialty Testimony Review Process
- The Medical Specialty Review Committee receives a review request from EMC Administration from which all review requests must originate.
- The Specialty Committee Chair creates a Provisional Review list for this review all of whom have experience in or agree to provide consultations in both plaintiff and defendant review perspectives.
- EMC administration and the Specialty Committee chair communicate with the expert to be reviewed, listing the cases to be reviewed and provide the list of potential reviewers.
- The physician under review deletes any reviewers from his provisional reviewer list as he desires, without cause, and submits the list of acceptable reviewers to EMC. The physician may not submit additional reviewers. No preliminary contact is made with potential reviewers by anyone and no case discussion outside the EMC review process is allowed.
- The physician under review may submit additional evidence based data and electronic presentations to support his standard of care positions. Personal reports and letters of reference will not be allowed.
- From the reviewer list approved by the physician under review, the specialty committee chair selects a minimum of two reviewers for the actual review. The committee chair or his designate and the reviewers selected constitute that physicians review committee. The selected reviewers are not identified to the physician under review.
- All reviewers evaluate an exact copy of the same data. A conference of the review panel will allow any reviewer to offer additional information and data to the entire panel for additional consideration. Reviewers may not communicate regarding the evaluation other than at official meetings and teleconferences. Any request for data, clarification of information on standards from any national medical specialty organizations must be transmitted via EMC administration via the specialty committee chair only.
- After review and consideration of all data and testimony, the review committee chair will develop a consensus report to be approved by a majority of the review committee, each committee person having one vote.
- The consensus report of the specialty review committee will have one of two possible conclusions:
- The depositions and testimony of the named physician as to the testimony reviewed is consistent with the Standards of Care of The American Society of ________________________.
- The depositions and testimony of the named physician as to the testimony reviewed is inconsistent with the Standards of Care of The American Society of __________________________.
