Mandated State Medical Licensing Board Disclosures Regarding Resident Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

State medical licensing boards ask program directors (PDs) to complete verification of training (VOT) forms for licensure. While residency programs use Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies, there is no uniform process or set of metrics that licensing boards use to ascertain if academic competency was achieved.

Objective

We determined the performance metrics PDs are required to disclose on state licensing VOT forms.

Methods

VOT forms for allopathic medical licensing boards for all 50 states, Washington, DC, and 5 US territories were obtained via online search and reviewed. Questions were categorized by disciplinary action (investigated, disciplined, placed on probation, expelled, terminated); documents placed on file; reside

SUBMITTER: Murano T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6570450 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature