More primary care grimness from John Gordon. Making re-certification harder for primary care isn’t going to help:
You have to love a group of people who, faced with immense economic pressures, decide to make their board certification five times harder. There’s a definite impulse to self-punishment among family physicians …
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I looked at my specialties recertification process and it is considerably more expensive than my orignial certification. I concluded that it is really about making money and decided that since my original cert is lifetime, I am not going to play the game. My specialty of psyhciatry now has added certification in everyting except finger painting–it is all about the money for the boards.
Damn straight. The self-important blowhards who delight in abusing the resident just ONE last time can take their re-cert’s and …
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