10-Year PA Recertification Cycle?
It seems as though Pennsylvania PA Bernie Stuetz's effort to increase the length PA recertification cycle to 10 years is gaining momemtum.
Stuetz wrote "A Plan to Revise PA Recertification" for ADVANCE in 2006 and introduced a related resolution at the 2007 AAPA House of Delegates.
Here's an excerpt from Stuetz's ADVANCE article.
Among the problems with the current recertification system is the lack of defining and proving competence in the PA profession. Another is the fact that PAs and physicians are being treated differently. PAs should recertify every 10 years, as the ABMS recommends for its physician specialty organizations. This could be gradually put in place to coincide with the dissolution of pathway II in 2010, as the American Board of Family Medicine is doing.
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