What kind of additional certification and/or training will be required to operate the newer ultrasound technology?
Many of us do not like the idea that accreditation will, effectively, be mandatory; I think it will be. I say that I do not like the idea, even though I am the AIUM s vice chair of accreditation. Nobody likes to have to jump through more hoops. We do enough. We take admission exams for medical school. We take exams all through medical school, then we take national boards, then we take specialty boards and, in my case, subspecialty boards, and those are both written and oral exams, and we have to get continuing certification. No one wants more, but the insurance companies are going to require it, if we do not. So, if we have some national accreditation processes that allow people to show their certificates and say to insurance companies, Look I have been through a process that ensures that I have been educated, that I have adequate equipment, that I have a safe lab, that I keep good records so far that has worked. All the insurance companies that have thought about their own accreditati
