State Medical Boards that license and discipline physicians play an important and insufficiently studied role in medical quality assurance. Only Boards can limit or remove a physician's license to practice, [...]
Both the Federation [of State Medical Boards] and the American Medical Association offer guidelines on how to deal with ethical behavior issues, but no one entity oversees or mandates how [...]
In the United States, state level boards dictate rules for physician licensure and discipline. Would-be physicians must complete an approved medical training program and pass a standardized test. Scope of-practice [...]
Board certification was associated with a lower risk of discipline ([odds ratio] OR, 0.45; P
As recently as the late 1960s, most licensure boards were composed of individuals appointed or nominated by medical societies. Only slowly did judicial supervision and legislative control transform licensure boards [...]
Disciplined physicians were more likely to practice in psychiatry, child psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and family and general practice than nondisciplined physicians and were older than the national physician population, [...]
State medical boards discipline several thousand physicians each year. Although certain subgroups, such as those disciplined for malpractice, substance use, or sexual abuse, have been studied, little is known about [...]
Current statutes grant broad, near-exclusive scopes of practice to a few professions and “carved-out” scopes for the remaining professions. These laws erect unreasonable barriers to high-quality and affordable care.The need [...]
This study explores the effects of public licensing board members on legislative regulatory reforms. It represents the first such study that looks across states and across occupations. Public members were [...]
The generally stated purpose for licensing and the primary justification for this use of the police power of the state is to ensure quality in services offered to the public. [...]