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 [...]
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 [...]
Relicensing requirements for professionals who move across borders are widespread. In this article, we measure the effects of occupational licensing by exploiting an immigrant physician retraining assignment rule. Instrumental variables [...]
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, [...]
Despite the inherent advantages of peer review, the record of self-enforcement among physicians has been poor. Failures have been attributed to plausible factors, including protective self-interest, a misdirected sense of [...]
Public reports ranking physician competence and quality often yield conflicting results and create confusion. Bivariate Pearson correlation analyses were performed to compare states' rankings of physician discipline and physician quality, [...]
Only a small segment of the physician population has been formally disciplined. According to a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, those sanctioned are health care professionals who “may be incompetent, [...]
In the United States, the authority to regulate medical professionals lies with the states. To practice within a state, clinicians must obtain a license from that state’s government. State statutes [...]
I argue here that licensure not only fails to protect consumers from incompetent physicians, but, by raising barriers to entry, makes health care more expensive and less accessible. Institutional oversight [...]
There are many more examples of ways in which public members can strengthen their boards by raising issues and concerns and introducing agenda items that licensee members are unlikely to [...]