‘How Doctors Keep Up’
His description of the potential of registering for a CME course, not attending and then taking credit for the course exists. However, increasingly, CME courses require registration at the start and on the conclusion of the course often combined with a pretest and a post-test which if not both completed result in no CME credit.
But Greenberg fails to mention the layering upon layering of review committees, accreditation committees and organizations, as well as third-party payer reviews that subject any physician’s practice to continual scrutiny. He also fails to mention the increasing number of certifying specialty boards that now mandate regular periodic recertification with the initial certification no longer being valid for life, but only for a stated number of years.
SYLVAIN FRIBOURG, M.D.
Panorama City
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