The Role of Specialty Certification in Career-Long Competence.
Journal
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
ISSN: 1938-808X
Titre abrégé: Acad Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8904605
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 10 2023
01 10 2023
Historique:
medline:
28
9
2023
pubmed:
5
7
2023
entrez:
5
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37406286
doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005314
pii: 00001888-990000000-00493
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1104-1106Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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