Competence and Cognitive Difficulty in Physicians: A Follow-up Study

PURPOSE: Remediation of incompetent physicians has proven difficult and sometimes impossible. The authors wished to determine whether such physicians had neuropsychological impairment sufficient to explain their incompetence and their failure to improve after remedial continuing medical education (CME). METHOD: Between 1997 and 2001, the authors undertook neuropsychological screening of 45 participants of a physician competency assessment …