016: Agree to Disagree

In this episode, Josh follows up on his approach to evaluating residencies. He talks about looking at board pass rates and the tricky proposition of asking about accreditation status. Jason and Josh then get into a snarky blog post Josh wrote about a recent study evaluating the value of infectious diseases doctors.

Links for this episode:

• American Board of Pediatrics | ABP Pass Rates 2010 - 2012
• Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
• ACGME Accreditation Status database
• ID Week
• Josh’s tweet heard ’round the ID world (well…the few peds ID docs that follow him)
• Infectious Diseases Doctors Find In Study That Infectious Diseases Doctors Are Great | Josh’s Blog
• Jason’s response to Josh’s post
• IDSA/Avalere Study Demonstrates the Value of the ID Specialist | IDSA News
• Infectious Diseases Specialty Intervention is Associated with Decreased Mortality and Lower Healthcare Costs | Clinical Infectious Diseases (the study that set everything off)
• An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

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