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Re: AIUM CertificationFrom: Betsy Hyde (elishyde@connix.com)Fri Jan 3 21:05:02 1997
>>> <DoctorJoe@aol.com> 01/03/97 12:20pm >>> ><<Dr. Brenner wrote that he was unwilling to spend $4000 to get certified to >do OB sonography. We came to the same conclusion. Our volume isn't that high, >as the Radiology department does all the routine scans, and the >perinatologists >primarily just scan consult patients. We decided that we would just have give >ourselves "certification", as some of us have been doing it for decades. >> > >Hmm.... does completion of an accredited OB-GYN residency imply automatic >"certification" in obstetric ultrasound, or not? And completion of an MFM >fellowship DOES, right? > >Joe P. >----------------------------------- >I really don't think so - I do think, however, that an MFM practitioner >----------------------------------- >within a >----------------------------------- >peer-reviewed department should have the responsibility to decide if they are >capable or not. We don't get special certificates to do Keilland's as OB's, and >I never got a certificate in doing PUBS or other procedures, let alone reading >a fetal monitor. Why is ultrasound so different? > >Richard Lowensohn ultrasound world is quite territorial, and those with the initials after their name wish to preserve their own little fiefdom. One of our own RDMS told me that I should never, never ever check for viability or presentation or placentation or do BPPs because I am not MD or RDMS. Also that I should not sign off on u/s reports because I am not qualified to interpret them. (I make a plain of care based on them, but she feels I should not initial them.)
-- Betsy Hyde CNM Branford, CT midwife in private ob/cnm practice assistant clinical professor, yale university.
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