Services
and functions
Education
The FSPHP
serves as an educational resource about physician impairment, provides
advocacy for physicians and their health issues at local, state,
and national levels, and assists state programs in their quest to
protect the public. In addition, the FSPHP does the following:
- helps to establish
monitoring standards
- promotes annual meetings
and state membership
- facilitates regional
educational meetings
- serves as an informational
resource
Research
repository
The FSPHP accumulates relevant data on the functioning
of state programs, state laws that govern program operation, and
resources available for assisting physicians with psychoactive substance
use disorders and mental and physical illness.
It is the FSPHP’s
goal to serve as a resource base for universities, foundations,
professional treatment centers, medical boards, and the media.
|
