Consolidating my own silos

I am moving all my posts on this blog to www.senthilonmanagement.blogspot.com

My future posts will be all published under the new blog (Senthil on management).

See you at my new location...

Identity for quality

American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), a non-profit evaluation organization periodically tests the quality of 1 on 4 practicing physicians in the United States every year. The pass rates on the initial attempts have been close to 86%, which I feel is pretty scary, assuming that 14% of the physicians are in the risk of not allowed to practice till they pass.

Amidst a lot of critical reviews about the evaluation system, I feel it is still a very reassuring practice to let the taxpayers know that the system cares for the quality of the practicing internists. When was the last time, we, IT professionals took such a professional re-certification? We do have internal exams/certifications that our organizations mandate to pass to get our promotions/hikes, but none of them stop us from practicing the work that we are doing.

Is such a re-certification required for our profession, when most of the problems we encounter are answered by Google anyways? Should we need a authority which puts rigorous control on the quality of professionals coding/designing/managing? Should our identity for quality be a certificate and not a resume?