I’m not a doctor and I don’t have strong opinions about how doctors should be certified or, more to the point right now, what they should have to do to maintain their certification over the course of their careers. But recently this last topic– called maintenance of certification, or MOC– has become the subject of a raging debate within the medical community, as thousands of doctors have expressed their displeasure, to put it mildly, with a new recertification scheme established last year by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the official “certifying” body of a large proportion of doctors in the US. From what I’ve read it appears that the critics of the new system have some very legitimate points and that some big changes will likely be necessary. But in the course of the debate I have been disturbed by some of the arguments that have been used to criticize the new MOC. (Unfortunately I haven’t seen a lot of attempts to actually defend the new scheme so I can’t give equal time to the other viewpoint.)
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