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They need to do the same for medical schools, and especially for residency allocations.

• cestith 10mo ago
  I’m hesitant to agree offhand on accreditation, although you might be right. The residency system in its current form is terribly broken though. Something better needs to be available.
• fooqux 10mo ago
  > They need to do the same for medical schools I'm ignorant here. Why do you say this? From my admittedly uneducated viewpoint, having a board of some type makes sense because I don't care about the results of a test you took fifteen years ago. I care about how you behave today. I'm the case of lawyers, having the courts approve you makes some sense- they're all in the law system. Who would do this for doctors? Having a diploma is well and good but it seems like we need continued governance and the ability to revoke your license if you're a screw up. It doesn't make much sense to me to have the body approving your immediate start at a practice be different from those that will review your continuation of that practice at a later date.
  • Onavo 9mo ago
    The issue is not for ongoing malpractices, it's mostly because the medical professional associations do a lot of gatekeeping to restrict the supply of healthcare professionals (and lobby Congress to restrict the number of training positions, known as residencies, to create artificial scarcity).