Rethinking Postgraduate Training Requirements for Licensure: The Kansas Experience

摘要

To the Editor: The commentaries by Dr. Freeman1 and Dr. Orlowski2 published in Academic Medicine highlight the disconnect between current graduate medical education (GME) experiences and licensure requirements. Changes made in GME training to accommodate the current Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requirements have resulted in residents having less clinical exposure compared with residents trained prior to the implementation of these mandates, when the regulations defining qualifications for licensure were adopted in almost all U.S. states.