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  • Physician Competency
  • Continuing Professional Development

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  • Increasing physician specialization necessitates high-quality continuing professional development for mastery learning.
  • Board certification, a surrogate for physician competency, may be suboptimally aligned with its intended purpose.
  • Understanding physician motivation for maintaining competence across multiple specialties is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the motivations driving physicians to pursue and maintain competence in multiple medical specialties.
  • To identify factors influencing continued education and lifelong learning in board-certified physicians across diverse fields.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study employing thematic analysis of semistructured virtual interviews.
  • Utilized the theoretical framework of "landscapes of practice" from sociocultural learning theory.
  • Included fifteen internists and their subspecialties engaged in continual board certification.

Main Results:

  • Identified six key themes motivating physicians to maintain competency in multiple specialties.
  • Themes include: Social responsibility, Promise of expertise, Enhanced job opportunities, Widened expertise, Professional requirements, and Personal fulfillment.
  • Physicians are motivated by a blend of altruistic, professional, and personal drivers.

Conclusions:

  • Physician competency maintenance is a continuous, lifelong learning process within an evolving medical landscape.
  • A segment of internal medicine physicians are motivated to practice across multiple specialties, acknowledging associated opportunities and challenges.
  • Organizational education should focus on hybrid learning, emphasizing cross-discipline training to address current gaps in continuing professional development.