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Also, how would it be enforced? To work for a service or a hospital,
perhaps such certification might be required, but, for instance, I have been
working for the two orthos I do for nearly 18 years! They are private
physicians. There is no way they are going to hire some unknowns,
certification or not, and can me. And, while I have some knowledge of other
fields (I do two internal medicine docs) and have done both cardiology and
radiology extensively in the past, I doubt I could pass a "general" test.
I know my strengths, but I also am experienced enough to know those
"strengths" are limited. I could learn them, of course, but I'm 72, happy
with what I am doing, have all the work I can handle and I'm not about to go
back to school! Of course, perhaps someone like me could possibly be
"grandfathered" in in the specialties I am experience with, but could the
law "force" my two ortho accounts to fire me if I did not become
credentialed?

I don't think it will even happen, but who knows. Government wants to
control everything--but how are they going to deal with out-of-the-country
practitioners?

Barb C.
"Eliyahu Rooff" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Gisele" <Gisele.27rjjv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not particularly in favor of mandatory credentialling. You
can memorize all the facts in the world regarding medicine and
still
not
have "it" when it comes to actually putting it into practice.
If that's the case, then the person in question would not be able
to
get or keep a job. The current exam requires 2 years of job
experience, so hopefully by then the candidate would know if they
have
"it." As for mandatory credentialing, I'm sure it will never
happen,
don't give it another thought.

Part of the problem I have with mandatory credentials/certification
in any field is that it essentially cedes the right to decide who to
hire from the employer to an outside agency or the State itself. In
my field, for example, there are some states which have paralegal
certification, and a few in which it's mandatory. Washington isn't
one of them, and an attorney can hire anyone, do his own training,
and have a paralegal who's competent to work within his field of
practice. (Criminal defense and personal injury, in my office.)
When you have certification exams, the paralegal has to expand his
knowledge to virtual all fields of law from family and business law
to corporate and environmental law, which he may never use and
doesn't need. It has the effect of both making it expensive to
become a paralegal and keeping people from entering the field except
through approved schools and programs. Similarly, an MT who works
in-house for an opthomologist is unlikely to either want or need
training in orthopaedics, gastroenterology, geriatrics or podiatry
(and we know that there's a lot more than just vocabulary), but
would certainly need that training to pass a mandatory State exam.
It would also take away from the MD the right to decide that as long
as you know his specialty, you don't need more before working for
him. The alternative would be to set up a system in which you could
test separately for each medical specialty in which you want to
work, but it would be unwieldy and cumbersome, to say the least.

Eliyahu




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