National Capital Consortium
Psychiatry Residency Program
Borden Pavilion,
Bldg.6, Rm. 2059,
XXXXXXX
Consortium Participating Instructions: Uniformed
May
17, 2007
Memorandum
for: Credentials Committee
Subject:
CPT Nidal Hasan
1. I
am the program director for NCC Psychiatry Residency Training Program. I took
over as PD in MAR 2007 and was Assistant PD from July 2006. I have been a
faculty member of the residency since July 2004.
2.
This memo is based on my personal knowledge of and the documented incidences in
CPT Hasan’s Resident Training File.
3.
The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan’s
professionalism and work ethic. Clinically he is competent to deliver safe
patient care. But he demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of
professionalism. In his
PGY-2 year, he was counseled for inappropriately discussing religious topics
with his assigned patients. He also required a period of in-program
remediation when he was discovered to have not documented appropriately an ER
encounter with a homicidal patient who subsequently eloped from the ER. He did
successfully remediate this problem. At the end of his PGY-2 year, he was placed
on administrative probation by the NCC GMEC for failure to take and pass USMLE
Step 3 and to obtain an unrestricted state medical license by the end of his
PGY-2 year; as a result he was not promoted to PGY-3 on time. He did eventually
complete step 3 and get a license and was promoted to PGY-3. He was counseled
for having a poor record of attendance at didactics and lower than expected
PRITE scores. One year he failed to show for his PRITE examination at all.
During his PGY-3 year, he was counseled for being consistently late to NNMC
morning report. During his PGY-4 year, he was discovered to have only seen 30
outpatients in 38 weeks of outpatient continuity clinic. He was required to
make this missed clinic time up using his elective. He failed his HGT/WGT screening
and was found to be out of standards with body fat % and was counseled on that.
Lastly,
he missed a night of call for MGMC ER and then did not respond to numerous
pages by my office the next day.
4.
Take together; these issues demonstrate a lack of professionalism and work
ethics. He is able to self-correct with supervision. However, at this point he
should not need so much supervision. In spite of all of this, I am not able to
say he is not competent to graduate nor do I think a period of academic
probation now at the end of his training will be beneficial. He would be able
to contain his behavior enough to complete any period of probation
successfully. My purpose in writing this letter is to give the credentials
committee the benefit of full disclosure and the opportunity to modify CPT Hasan’s plan of supervision following initial privileging.
5. I
did discuss this memo with CPT Hasan and informed him
I would be adding it to his initial credentialing paperwork.
6.
POC is the undersigned and may be reached at 202-XXX-XXXX or email at XXX/
Sincerely,
Scott
Moran, MAJ, MC
Program
Director
NCC
Psychiatry Residency Training