When I finished my pediatric residency almost 20 years ago, I embarked upon a career in general pediatrics because I didn’t enjoy any particular subspecialty enough to commit my career to it. After spending several years in a mostly outpatient setting (peppered with child abuse consults, circumcisions, and an unsatisfyingly small number of hospitalized patients),
3 hospitalists’ struggles with board certification: a tale of ineligibility, cancelled tests, and unfair fees originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
