The Role of Specialty Certification in Career-Long Competence

被引:5
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作者
Lyness, Jeffrey M. [1 ,3 ]
Mcmahon, Graham T. [2 ]
机构
[1] Amer Board Psychiat & Neurol, Deerfield, IL USA
[2] Accreditat Council Continuing Med Educ, Chicago, IL USA
[3] Amer Board Psychiat & Neurol, 7 Pkwy North, Deerfield, IL 60015 USA
关键词
OWN INCOMPETENCE; SELF; DIFFICULTIES;
D O I
10.1097/ACM.0000000000005314
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Across the medical profession there is broad acceptance of the critical role of continuing medical education (CME) in enabling physicians to adapt to both new information and evolving expectations within the profession. In the presence of widespread participation in CME, some have attempted to question, discredit, or marginalize the role of ongoing lifelong assessment of physician knowledge and skills through specialty continuing certification, advocating instead for a participatory standard based only on engagement with CME. This essay outlines the limitations of physician self-evaluation and clarifies the need for external assessments. Certification boards' role is to set specialty-specific standards for competence, assess to those standards, and assure the public that certified physicians are adequately maintaining their skills and abilities; doing so credibly necessarily requires, in part, independent assessments of physician competence. In these contexts, the specialty boards are taking approaches to identify performance gaps and leverage intrinsic motivation to facilitate physician engagement in targeted learning. Specialty board continuing certification plays a unique role, distinct from and complementary to the CME enterprise. Calls to eliminate continuing certification requirements beyond self-directed CME are contradictory to the evidence and fail the profession and the public.
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页码:1104 / 1106
页数:3
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