American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a non-profit evaluation organization periodically tests the quality of 1 on 4 practicing physicians in the United States every year. The pass rates on the initial attempts have been close to 86%, which I feel is pretty scary, assuming that 14% of the physicians are in the risk of not allowed to practice till they pass.
Amidst a lot of critical reviews about the evaluation system, I feel it is still a very reassuring practice to let the taxpayers know that the system cares for the quality of the practicing internists. When was the last time, we, IT professionals took such a professional re-certification? We do have internal exams/certifications that our organizations mandate to pass to get our promotions/hikes, but none of them stop us from practicing the work that we are doing.
Is such a re-certification required for our profession, when most of the problems we encounter are answered by Google anyways? Should we need a authority which puts rigorous control on the quality of professionals coding/designing/managing? Should our identity for quality be a certificate and not a resume?
I'm really not sure if we need such a certification for our profession. But I'm trying to imagine the outcome if such an evaluation system was enforced. Really scary.
ReplyDeleteSince its a life and death matter ,such stringent evaluation is required for doctors.
ReplyDeleteI feel this cannot be compared with certifications offered in IT industry.If an IT professional fails in doing his work he can go back ,learn ,update and execute his tasks well.But we do not want doctors to commit mistakes .
Evalution based on certification for IT pro,will vary based on the individual.Certain group of people fair really well with certifications and can provide better answers or innovative ideas than google posts.So i feel certification need not be mandated but it can kept as one of the criteria to climb up the ladder faster.