Professional Medical Conduct Board Actions consist of all public actions taken against physicians, physician assistants, specialist assistants, and medical professional corporations pursuant to New York State law. The dataset is provided by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated on April 1, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyzing temporal trends in disciplinary actions using Action and Effective Date columns.
- Mapping misconduct types to license categories using Misconduct Description and License Type columns.
- Identifying repeat offenders or patterns by linking individuals across records using First Name, Last Name, and License Number columns.
- Geographic analysis of disciplinary cases using the Address column.
Strengths
- Dataset covers actions beginning in 1990, providing a long-term historical view.
- Includes detailed disciplinary information via Misconduct Description and Action columns.
- Contains individual identifiers such as License Number and Year of Birth for record linkage.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- License information is unknown, which may restrict usage.
Provenance
- Source
- health.data.ny.gov
- Collection Method
- Public actions collected pursuant to Section 230 of the New York State Public Health Law and Section 6530 of the New York State Education Law.
- Time Range
- Beginning 1990.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-01 18:54:32.
- Geography
- New York State.