A reader highlights the disconnect between the ivory tower academics and real-world physician when it comes to board exams:
. . . the boards are costly and time consuming. They have spawned a whole industry of CME that feeds on doctors’ fears of not being up-to-date. I get a constant stream of advertisements for board reviews and courses throughout the year which makes me believe that the boards have become a profitable business . . .. . . If the administrators of the boards would come down from their ivory towers they would get rid of the pass/fail mindset, and make it known to healthcare organizations that boards should not be used to threaten a doctor’s livelihood.
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Your profession is no different than Legal. But they have gone an added juice to the so called educational market.
Because the “CLE” requirements were not being adhered too, they went the next step an established MCLE – “Minimum” Continuing Legal Education.
An yes this market is booming, so much so many leave the “practicing” portion and just teach.
Why is no-one made aware of the true “operating” cost of maintaining your license…..
What is agravating is that I have to fullfill the CME requirements with expensive cheesy lectures which add nothing to my knowledge, which I actually maintain reading journals.
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