Take a look back at one issue that is keeping doctors in a rage (will it continue in 2016?)
One of the its bigger critics of the American Board of Medical Specialties' Maintenance of Certification looks back (and ahead).
Is Maintenance of Certification a concept that’s reached its end?
It was a bad idea done for bad reasons and should not reach a rightful end.
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Something’s been lost in the Maintenance of Certification battle that may never be won back
After a brief foray into the uncomfortable position of being publicly humiliated, the American Board of Internal Medicine is now telling is they have begun a “transformation” of their Maintenance of Certification program. They said they got “it” wrong. But instead of understanding “it,” they want practicing physician to forget “it” and, instead, refocus our efforts to […]
16K doctors petition against cumbersome new board certification processes
Many specialists are balking at what they say are onerous new rules to get recertified, warning the demands will force some physicians out of practice at a time when the nation faces a shortage. Doctors say the new requirements have made maintaining specialty certifications a process that never ends. Younger doctors already retake the arduous […]
The AMA’s role in maintenance of certification
Andrew Schlafly, attorney for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the group who sued the American Board of Medical Specialties over the Maintenance of Certification process, recently described (video – scroll ahead to 5min, 30 sec) the scene in court: “When I sued the ABMS and six attorneys showed up on the other […]