Board Certification for Psychiatry

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given the current demand for psychiatrists, how important is it to be board certitifed after completing your psychiatry residency/fellowship?

how important is it to re-certify your board certication 10 yrs later after your initial board certification expires?

i heard the only reason psychiatrists get board certification is so that they can put it on the resume, as well as say they are if pts ask them.

any thoughts?

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[Doc Samson]

given the current demand for psychiatrists, how important is it to be board certitifed after completing your psychiatry residency/fellowship?

how important is it to re-certify your board certication 10 yrs later after your initial board certification expires?

i heard the only reason psychiatrists get board certification is so that they can put it on the resume, as well as say they are if pts ask them.

any thoughts?

As I'm getting ready to graduate, everything I've heard from my PD and chairman is that it is ABSOLUTELY vital to be board certified, and to maintain your board certification throughout your career. Many places now will only hire you if you are board certified, and according to them, this will only increase (like everything else in psychiatry, starting on the coasts and working inland). Everyone in my class is sending of their board applications now to be eligible to take them this fall.

 

[prominence]

As I'm getting ready to graduate, everything I've heard from my PD and chairman is that it is ABSOLUTELY vital to be board certified, and to maintain your board certification throughout your career. Many places now will only hire you if you are board certified, and according to them, this will only increase (like everything else in psychiatry, starting on the coasts and working inland). Everyone in my class is sending of their board applications now to be eligible to take them this fall.

thanks for the reply.

i dont expect your program's PD and chair to say differently. if all the residents get board certified, they can boast that their psych residency program graduates have a 100% pass rate on the boards.

i can imagine hospitals preferring board certification, but what if you go into private practice on your own? do you still need board certification?

i see myself taking the boards to become board certified at the end of my psych residency. but is it absolutely necessary to get recertfied every 10 years thereafter?

what restrictions will be placed on you if you don't get recertified?

 

[Doc Samson]

thanks for the reply.

i dont expect your program's PD and chair to say differently. if all the residents get board certified, they can boast that their psych residency program graduates have a 100% pass rate on the boards.

i can imagine hospitals preferring board certification, but what if you go into private practice on your own? do you still need board certification?

i see myself taking the boards to become board certified at the end of my psych residency. but is it absolutely necessary to get recertfied every 10 years thereafter?

what restrictions will be placed on you if you don't get recertified?

In terms of private practice, I've also heard that the idea ofinsurance companies requiring board certification for reimbursement is on the immediate horizon. Board certification is also pretty much a sine qua non if you have any intent of doing any forensic/expert witness work.

I don't think that my PD and chair actually give a crap about mentioning 100% pass rates on the boards - I've actually never heard anyone mention what our pass rate is. Intuitively though, if they did, you think they'd try to discourage anyone they'd worry about failing from taking it, instead of making wholesale endorsements of board certification being indispensible.

 

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u bring up some good points. thanks for the knowledge.