Cardiac and liver transplant anesthesiologist. Food junkie. Surfer and snowboarder. #endMOC advocate. Tweets are my own ill-conceived opinions.
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Challenging norms is how fields move forward. Physicians deserve better. Join NBPAS.
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BREAKING NEWS: WSJ just published an op-ed by Dr. Paul Teirstein on how the current board certification monopoly is driving physicians out of medicine. It’s time for change!
@WSJ @HHSGov @FTC @TheJusticeDept wsj.com/opinion/the-gatekeep…
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🥂 Cheers to Dr. Glaucomflecken! He understands the harm.
Source: youtube.com/@DGlaucomflecken
This is extortion. Plain and simple. No other word for it.
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Oren Bernstein, MD retweeted
“22,000 doctors stood up and said: Enough.”
Dr. Teirstein reflects on the founding of the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) and the ongoing fight against the monopoly controlling continuous board certification. Even today, some hospitals continue to deny privileges to highly qualified physicians simply because they are not certified by that monopoly.
It’s time to rethink continuous certification.
It’s time to amplify physician voices.
It’s time for change.
📢 Watch and share. Join the movement at nbpas.org
#PhysicianAdvocacy #BoardCertification #NBPAS #DrTierstein #MedicalFreedom
100% this.
Board Certification Should Work for You - Not the Other Way Around
You know what your patients need. You know what learning makes you a better doctor. So why should an expensive, rigid MOC program dictate your education?
At NBPAS, we believe in lifelong learning, not lifelong fees, giving you the ability to choose education that actually benefits your patients without burdensome, costly requirements.
Thousands of physicians have already made the switch. Join them. Because board certification should support your practice - not stand in its way.
Learn more: nbpas.org/
#NBPAS #PhysicianAutonomy #LifelongLearning #BoardCertification #EndMOCMonopoly #DoctorsDeserveBetter
Or join NBPAS @InfoNbpas and be done with this extortionist nonsense.
The clock to the end of the year is ticking down, but it's not too late to start your MOCA Minute questions! ⏰ Begin by Dec. 28, to complete 120 questions by Dec. 31. You can answer up to 30 questions per day. Get started in ABA GO. loom.ly/UXodHzg #theABA #MOCAMinute
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A Year of Progress, Thanks to You!
As we close out the year, we want to thank our incredible supporters for helping us champion a less burdensome, more clinically relevant pathway for physician continuous certification.
Together, we’ve achieved:
✅ Increased hospital recognition of NBPAS certification.
✅ Growth in the number of NBPAS-certified physicians.
✅ Expanded advocacy with state and federal entities.
✅ New resources to empower physicians in engaging their Medical Executive Committees (MECs).
✅ Greater transparency in physician certification practices.
Your continued support fuels our mission to give physicians a choice in continuous certification. Let’s keep the momentum going into 2025 with new initiatives, including expanded government advocacy, enhanced education for hospitals, and the launch of the NBPAS Leadership Academy!
Join us in shaping the future—your support makes all the difference.
Read our December Monthly Dose to Learn more: buff.ly/408BBOf
#NBPAS #PhysicianAdvocacy #MedicalCertification #HealthcareInnovation
Oren Bernstein, MD retweeted
Paying expensive fees for MOC is like paying an extra tax for taking care of your patients. How much have you spent on unnecessary MOC fees?
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"Doctors Deserve to Be Treated as Professionals" - Dr. Howard Schulman
Dr. Howard Schulman, a general internist practicing in Rhode Island since 1995, shares his perspective in a recent opinion piece in The Providence Journal. He highlights a concerning disparity: while Physician Assistants are not required to maintain their certification, physicians must shoulder the burdensome and costly Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements just to remain employed. Dr. Schulman questions whether these requirements truly improve patient care or instead unnecessarily reduce access to board-certified physicians, urging a reevaluation of how medical professionals are treated.
By joining the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS), physicians can advocate for a less burdensome, evidence-based continuous board certification pathway. Join NBPAS - nbpas.org
📖 Read more: buff.ly/3Z2xXVu
Oren Bernstein, MD retweeted
NBPAS is gaining momentum in the Northeast! 🌟 With 37 hospitals in the Northeast region and over 200 nationwide already accepting NBPAS certification, the movement for streamlined, evidence-based continuous certification is growing stronger. If your hospital isn’t on the list yet, you can help change that! Advocate for a recertification pathway that prioritizes ongoing education and reduces unnecessary burdens. Together, we can expand the reach of NBPAS and empower more physicians to focus on what matters most: patient care.
See our full list of hospital acceptance here: buff.ly/4fuoKee For support introducing NBPAS to your hospital see here: buff.ly/3UXQQGN
Just donated to put my money where my mouth is… we cannot do this without concrete action.
Donate.
Join @InfoNbpas .
Find colleagues who hate MOC (ie, 99% of them) and make a formal presentation to your MEC about NBPAS. Do this with colleagues from many different specialties.
For all those who have donated to the @PPA_USA GoFundMe recently, thank you! (I’ll send you an acknowledgement soon.) And thanks, @AaronGoodman33 Getting close to hitting another fundraising milestone in our effort to end MOC: gofund.me/0aed1f73
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NBPAS is growing! We just closed out January with 181 new physician diplomates. If you are interested in joining your colleagues in supporting change and want to learn, more please reach out. ✉️[email protected].
#IStandWithNBPAS #MOC #Physicians #DoctorsforDoctors #NBPAS
Why more people don’t wake up and recognize this is beyond my comprehension.
This is flagrant extortion. I read echos every single day. I have absolutely no need for a maintenance of echo certification program. We know who benefits from this 💰 and it is not the patients.
So I guess reading hundreds of echos every week means nothing 👇 So sad to see our profession implode from the inside when we know the real story to “maintaining” competency is not about maintaining one’s skill, it’s about maintaining lifelong payments.
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Oren Bernstein, MD retweeted
No one entity should weld control over the practice of medicine. Join NBPAS and together we can break the monopoly!
The premise of MOC is that we physicians are too unethical to be trusted with staying current for the benefit of our patients. We therefore must rely on our ABMS boards to force us to be current, and pay them handsomely for their trouble.
We must, en masse, reject this premise.