Re: Board Recertification -- Is It A Scam?
From: Joe (forcep@intercom.net)
Tue Sep 25 15:15:09 2007
Could we add "quality assurance" in the hospitals to that thought? Joe C
Dean Huffman . wrote:
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> My impression about the whole recertification situation is that it is a scam.
>
> ACOG and ABOG talk about "evidenced based medicine". Well, where is the
> evidence
> that recertification makes a difference. ABOG has the perfect opportunity now,
> but that opportunity will be gone in a few years, to test out whether
> recertificatio makes a difference. They can look at the practices of those who
> got boarded just before the recertification rules went into effect and those
> who got boarded just after. They could then see whther there was any
> significant difference in the practices.
>
> I can guarantee that this study will not be done, however, at least not by
> ABOG.
> Why screw up a good thing with evidence.
>
> The recertification thing is a machine that grows on itself. It's justification
> for existing is that it exists. And since it has so much power, it can do
> whatever it wants, charge whatever it wants.
>
> I think it is, to a large degree, a scam, a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuationg
> entity.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
>
>>From: "Joanne Bulley, MD" <islesannie@gmail.com>
>>Sent: Sep 24, 2007 8:48 PM
>>Subject: Re: ABC Examination ...
>>
>>Just a few questions to those of you who have done this before - my
>>reading of the ABC info is that you have to answer a minimum of 120
>>questions. I got the results that I have answered 118 of the 120
>>questions correctly - so I THINK that I don't have to do the third set
>>of 60 questions -- I hope to God that is correct!
>>
>>This is my first year of doing the ABC - and although I downloaded the
>>info booklet - is is not 100% clear ....
>>
>>I have not read it recently - but I seem to recall that you are also
>>required to do a certain number of hours of other CME - but I don't
>>recall a method for getting that info to them.
>>
>>Mu personal "grumping" is that
>>1. ABOG has all the info on who is due for recert.
>>2. ABOG should send out the notice that says "your are due" and "this
>>is exactly what you need to do"
>>3. Instead they tell you nothing - you have to go looking and read
>>between the lines on some of the information.
>>
>>Has any one else doing the ABOG stuff gotten that impression - I hope it
>>isn't only me that has had this experience!
>>
>>Dean - thanks for the reminder!
>>
>>Joanne
>>(MCO 1981)
>>
>>At Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Dean Huffman . wrote:
>>
>>>.
>>>
>>>A reminder for anyobdy taking the ABOG ABC (annual board certification)
>>>examination: The answer sheets are due in the ABOG offices in Dallas, Texas,
>
> by
>
>>>end of business on Friday. Therefore, they need to be sent no later than this
>>>Thursday (there are some "same day delivery services," but they are not
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> always
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>>>guaranteed).
>>>
>>>I recommend that if the answer sheets have not been sent in yet, then one use
>>>FedEx, UPS, DHL, or similar NEXT DAY DELIVERY SERVICES. I would NOT recommend
>>>using the US Postal Service overnight delivery -- I have found it not to be
>>>that reliable.
>>>
>>>If anybody needs any specific articles, send me an e-mail and I will forward
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> a
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>>>PDF copy of the article (general OGB/GYN or MFM).
>>>
>>>If you do not have enough time to get all the questions answered, just answer
>
> at
>
>>>ramdom, A, B, or C in order to get the articles finished. Even if you do not
>
> get
>
>>>the 70% "correct" rate, they give you a second chance exam.
>>
>>--
>>Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG
>>Solo gyn
>>Keene, NH USA
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