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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 82:1052 (2000)
© 2000 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letters to The Editor

Value of Recertification (I)

C. Martin Persons, M.D., Joel E. Cleary, M.D., Michael A. Simon, M.D. and G. Paul DeRosa, M.D.

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To The Editor:

I recently read the Commentary entitled "The Value of Recertification to Orthopaedic Surgery and to the Public" (81-A: 292-294, Feb. 1999), by Simon and DeRosa. As a Board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who has sat for recertification and who was, in fact, a member of the first class to have time-limited boards, I think it is interesting that some fourteen years later the Board is still trying to justify recertification.

I first sat for my boards in 1986 and, in fact, am still angry today that no one informed me until I actually got to Chicago that I would be a member of the first class to have time-limited boards that would require recertification. No one ever asked me, and, to my knowledge, no one ever took a vote among the orthopaedic community, as to whether or not boards needed to be time-limited.

The Commentary by Dr. Simon and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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