MOC/MOL and Physician Consent to Certification Licensure was originally intended as a requirement to practice medicine. By contrast, certification was intended to be voluntary, signifying advanced training and life-time learning. But with MOC/MOL, voluntary certification is now becoming mandatory for licensure. I wonder if the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has breached its origin...

Quadrivalent human papillomavirus (4vHPV) vaccine was licensed for use in the United States in 2006 and through 2015 was the predominate HPV vaccine used. With the exception of syncope, a known preventable adverse event after any injected vaccination, both pre-licensure and post-licensure 4vHPV safety data have been reassuring with no confirmed safety signals identified. Nine-valent HPV vaccine...

Following calls to reform the dental licensure process, New York state has adopted an innovative approach that is responsive to the perceived shortcomings of the existing Part III examination. This solution eliminates the legally, psychometrically, and ethically compromised system, replacing it with a requirement that both ensures the public's protection and gives the new dentist additional exp...

Crash rates increase sharply at the age at which teenagers begin to drive and remain elevated relative to adult levels until drivers are well into their twenties. Parents have important roles to play in managing the risk for teenage drivers before and after licensure. Parents can be involved in their teenagers' driving, allowing them to test for permit and licensure, supervising practice drivin...

Author’s Email: [email protected] Tel: +63 027362211. This study involved the correlation of academic performance and licensure examination results which were used as bases for curriculum enhancement. A descriptive-correlational design was used to describe the academic performances, licensure examination, changes and perception of faculty in the curriculum and relationship of the academic and ...

OBJECTIVES The study aimed to determine the prevalence of unlicensed riding and motorcycle borrowing among young motorcyclists, and to document their perceptions of how they would be affected if the minimum age of licensure were raised. METHODS Motorcycling was investigated as part of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a broad longitudinal study of the health, develop...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between driving while alcohol/drug impaired (DWI) and the timing and amount of exposure to others' alcohol/drug-impaired driving (riding while impaired [RWI]) and driving licensure timing among teenage drivers. METHODS The data were from waves 1, 2, and 3 (W1, W2, and W3, respectively) of the NEXT Generation Study, with longitudinal assessment of a nationa...