Meet The Doc The American Board of Medical Specialties Wants Dead | Against Medical Advice 035

[@KTravRuNEr]

I am a member of NBPAS and I wholeheartedly support this cause. We must fight back.

[@MrVara411]

Good on you, Kathy!!! :)

[@andrewroberts6588]

Way to go Dr. Teirstein!

[@dgim8016]

excellent discussion and outline of the mockery of MOC - there was once a story of David v Goliath...who won and why?

[@Northstar1989]

Interesting video. Somehow you manage to make this entertaining. If I ever make it to medical school and become an MD, I'll be sure to give back to the profession and not neglect issues like this...

[@EugenioAngueira]

This was excellent and the points raised are valid. I'm just waiting to attend ADA this year to have the required credits to certify through NBPAS. I'm hoping this is all sorted out by 2020. That's when my re-certification (for the second time) is due. If I can avoid the mockery of MOC, I will be one happy doc.

[@greggatchell9255]

Great episode! I'm joining!

[@alantony123]

thanks Dr Teirstein, your logic is sound.

[@Fr33zy159]

I don't think continuous education is a bad thing; this has been the standard in EMS for decades as well as for the military. However, it needs to be WORTHWHILE education and shouldn't cost thousands of dollars at the end user point.

[@dttiimd]

I practice Family Medicine. Mostly adults. In my last recert exam there were FOUR newborn emergency questions! FOUR! They should pull up the video at the testing site and see my hands thrown up in the air.

[@ichhabramd]

Dr. Tierstein, an MD and a Pilot, I am in buddy.

[@roaddog1m]

Please give your opinion regarding the nurse who is in trouble (todays news) for stating her opinion on ER patients and the flu at the ER

[@macmademebroke]

roaddog1m he did. Totally agrees with her.

[@skyhoward2050]

I dont think that 20 hours of continuing education is unreasonable but it should be your choice what you study and want to learn more about/get better with. Some testing just to make sure that doctors are still competent (mentally, up to date on newer diagnosis, etc) seems fair but just a ton of studying things that you will never need in your specialty and having to do modules that take hours and hours on them is a waste of your time and brainpower.

[@np7097]

Why are ACC and SCAI not supporting NBPAS? Its time to think about who they represent - cardiologists or ABIM or money?

[@birdloverus]

It's not the routine MOC that's the problem. It's the exam. And now the ABIM "knowledge check-in", which is a joke, is the same exam, just shorter, every two years. Might as well stop working and just study full-time. Join ABIM Community Insights Network and you'll see what the vast majority of us IM docs think about all this. I think I'll join NBPAS and hope for more widespread acceptance before 3rd recert in 2022. I'm so done with these exams already. Too old for this nonsense.

[@conniebraunmd4949]

and with it the ever unforgiving National Practitioners Data Bank and the Compact that clearly discriminates against older physicians

[@bluecoraly]

The problem starts with Federation of State Medical Boards they impose rigid Maintenance of Certification to individual state boards, and I'm sure ABMS is heavily sponsoring their efforts.

[@woltews]

can someone explain to me how a rib can get dislocated ? friend just paid almost $100 to get this fixed

[@artgirl96]

Zdogg best doc ever :)

[@coleharris1945]

CE is necessary for a couple reasons. One - learned skills will decay if not practiced, even if the practice is mental exercise. Two - People are lazy and won’t stay on stop of their chosen disciplines and will inevitably get sloppy. Three - The field is medicine changes at exponential rates. If you do not keep up with your education, you will become a detriment to your patients and place of employment. Yes, they could do away with some of the redundancy. But repetition is arguably the single most effect way of training. I’d prefer if it were streamlined but removing it altogether is asinine.

[@LauroniBabe]

(Kind of unrelated) A recent episode of Greys Anatomy addressed how many women often struggle with being misdiagnosed because of gender stereotypes. (This recap addresses it in more detail: www.refinery29.com/2018/02/188750/greys-anatomy-recap-season-14-episode-11) interesting subject and would be interested in hearing more on it.

[@ichhabramd]

MOC is a scam. Just took the test for the third time, in practice for over twenty years. My patients are my validation of my skills.

[@43nostromo]

I'm pretty sure the ABMS doesn't want anyone dead. Good headline though.

[@3876LIZ9879]

Humor aside, this short dialogue is very inspirational. Just when I thought we've had enough problems to deal with---the powerful mega-pharmaceutical industry lumbering in legislation, poor health outcomes albeit expensive healthcare, etc.---now we have another complex problem with MOCs. I'm a med student. The inertia is strong.