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In this era of physician accountability, many organizations are searching for ways to evaluate physicians' performance. The principal method of the past — namely, the requirement of graduation from a training program and subsequent time-unlimited state licensure — seems naive in the context of the recent enthusiasm for assessing actual performance. Given that modern organizations, especially managed-care plans, still have little more than these criteria to go on when hiring new physicians, many use certification by 1 of the 24 member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) as a major criterion for hiring.^1,2,3 In fact, many plans . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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