CSAM recommends that the evaluator’s report should include at least these 9 elements

Recommendations to be reviewed/discussed during workshop Conducting & Reporting Substance Abuse Evaluations of Licensed Professionals September 28, 2007 Camino Medical Group 701 E. El Camino Real, Mountain View For registration information contact CSAM CSAM recommendations for the contents of evaluation reports and for the qualifications of physicians who conduct addiction medicine evaluations of health care professionals Preamble CSAM recognizes that health care personnel constitute a special population vis-à-v i s licensing and privileging issues related to personal health and questions of substance abuse. At stake are the protection of the public and the public trust as well as the protection of the health and career of the physician or other health care provider. Addiction medicine evaluations provide the information on which decisions about health, appropriate treatment and monitoring requirements, licensing and privileging are made. Such evaluations should address all the issues at stake in a coordinated way to meet the needs of the various parties--the person being evaluated, the licensing agency, those guiding treatment, those responsible for licensing and privileging, and perhaps others. Those who conduct such evaluations should have specific qualifications and the evaluation itself should be sufficient to support the necessary decisions. For these recommendations, the CSAM Committee on the Well-being of Physicians ...