There’s a lot of hoopla over at ODWIRE.org about board certification. Seems like the majority of them hate the idea of it.They don’t want to spend the time and money to take the test, especially the older docs. Are they just the vocal minority, or are they representative of what many practicing doctors believe?
Then at SCCO, our president Dr. Alexander, is a huge proponent of BC and so are many of the faculty. Are they the academics who just don’t understand the “real world” from their ivory tower view?
Regardless of whether it’s necessary or not, if not being board certified leads to optometrists being discriminated by insurance companies, what would the ramifications be? Would some docs retire early? Or is this just putting another hoop for us to jump through needlessly?