title: A modest proposal: board certification for medical educators (or quis custodiet ipsos custodes?).
abstract: So that medical educators themselves will not be deprived of the benefits of certification, a brief written examination is offered as a first step. While the examination questions initially appear to be as obscure as those found on other certifying examinations, on further consideration they are found to be illustrative of certain basic concepts of medical education that are thought to be enduring, though not currently popular.
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D004501:Education, Medical; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States