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The US Medical Licensing Examination is mainly for medical students not "senior" physicians, and the pass rate is extremely high for U.S. M.D. medical school gr
by _qulr 6y ago
The US Medical Licensing Examination is mainly for medical students not "senior" physicians, and the pass rate is extremely high for U.S. M.D. medical school graduates, over 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Medical_Licensing_Examination#Steps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Medical_Licensin...
In other words, it's not a standard job interview technique for doctors, it's a one-time requirement for licensing.
The other difference of course is that doctors are legally permitted to open up your guts with a knife, unlike Facebook engineers.
- jac241 6y agoThere are specialty board exams that you take once you're done with residency. Some are written exams. Surgical specialties do oral board exams where they present cases to you and question you on management. Pass rates for those are not as high. Many specialty boards make you take recertification exams every x number of years.
- _qulr 6y agoBut again, these are not job interviews, they're professional licensing requirement imposed by the government, not by employers. And I don't think Facebook requires its engineers to re-interview for their own jobs every x number of years, so that's disanalogous too. Ironically, the last thing that Facebook engineers want is for the government to regulate them. Just wait until they face the professional ethics boards. ;-) When has a programmer ever been kicked out of the industry for unethical behavior? More likely, they get promoted.