Swango is in jail on fraud convictions in New York. Take a large state like Texas, with 17,000 residents. We think that is a significant number. While speakers agreed institutions need to be more vigilant in their selection process, the cure FSMB suggests is a regulatory overdose. Medical school officials also objected to the FSMB suggestion that schools report student disciplinary problems to medical boards.
Medical school is filled with stress, anxiety and uncertainty.
This will undermine the process for remediation and ruin our evaluation process. Leslie Kahl, MD, assistant dean of student affairs at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, said students will be less likely to come forward with personal problems. Another FSMB proposal would require residents to complete three years of postgraduate training before receiving an unrestricted license. T he proposal also could wipe out moonlighting, said Andrew Mulvey, MD, a member of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Assn. Rebecca Minter, MD, chair of the Assn. of American Medical College's organization of resident representatives, said Tennessee has an effective moonlighting regulation.