Failed Pathology Boards in 2022? You may have actually passed….

[KeratinPearls]

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[octopusprime]

Maybe they can also reimburse them for the undergarments that were shat.

 

[Iceman24]

I can smell quite a few lawsuits coming as well as hundreds of appeals to a "fail" results...

 

[Pathprimer]

How come it took them two years to find it out?

 

[Gonio5]

I can smell quite a few lawsuits coming as well as hundreds of appeals to a "fail" results...

My guess is few people will sue. Few people have ironclad evidence that they were denied a specific higher paying job because of no board certification.

How come it took them two years to find it out?

Curious. Maybe someone was reviewing old questions when trying to write new questions and saw that some old questions lacked documentation of being fully vetted? Maybe one person responsible for a group of questions didn't do it? This is merely speculation.

 

[KeratinPearls]

My guess is few people will sue. Few people have ironclad evidence that they were denied a specific higher paying job because of no board certification.

Curious. Maybe someone was reviewing old questions when trying to write new questions and saw that some old questions lacked documentation of being fully vetted? Maybe one person responsible for a group of questions didn't do it? This is merely speculation.

You don’t need to be board certified to get a job but yeah some jobs require it. So people can sue as some people may have not applied to jobs that require board certification and hence lost income.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

There are lawyers running ads on TV right now looking for people who were told they failed.

 

[mike-sheree]

You don’t need to be board certified to get a job but yeah some jobs require it. So people can sue as some people may have not applied to jobs that require board certification and hence lost income.

I don’t know of a job that does not not
Require it unless you want to be a grossing tech. We would never consider you.

 

[KeratinPearls]

I don’t know of a job that does not not
Require it unless you want to be a grossing tech. We would never consider you.

Plenty of jobs will hire you if you are board eligible with the requirement that you pass the boards within a certain time frame. Thats why job ads say BC/BE. (Which stands for Board certified or board eligible).

Go to pathoutlines and read the job ads carefully.

Here’s an example;

Qualified Candidates:

• AP/CP certification or board eligibility
• Comfortable with the full scope of AP and CP for community hospital practice
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Active Florida Medical License or eligible to obtain

To be a medical director you need to be board certified.

 

[mike-sheree]

I never passed on hiring a person who was not board certified with , at least, a modicum of experience. This was decades ago mind you.

 

[coroner]

I don’t know of a job that does not not
Require it unless you want to be a grossing tech. We would never consider you.

Keratin is correct. There are some jobs that don't require b.c. They are rare but do exist.

Plenty of jobs will hire you if you are board eligible with the requirement that you pass the boards within a certain time frame.

Not necessarily a requirement...
I know an actively practicing pathologist who never passed boards, board ineligible, and he has been working at the same hospital for over 10 years. The medical director hired him because he personally knows him, he has a state medical license, and the hospital bylaws don't require him to be b.c.'d.

It all comes down to the hiring employer's requirements. Most require b.c., but not all do.

 

[mike-sheree]

Keratin is correct. There are some jobs that don't require b.c. They are rare but do exist.

Not necessarily a requirement...
I know an actively practicing pathologist who never passed boards, board ineligible, and he has been working at the same hospital for over 10 years. The medical director hired him because he personally knows him, he has a state medical license, and the hospital bylaws don't require him to be b.c.'d.

It all comes down to the hiring employer's requirements. Most require b.c., but not all do.

Rare, rare hospital, usually very old and run by a (frequently) non board certified old boy network. Best of luck to anyone who wants that environment.