Competency-Based Education

Four professional cardiovascular societies announced a push to create an independent board for cardiovascular medicine, part of an effort to simplify a competency process for cardiologists that has recently been a source of controversy.

Almost all mental disorders among children or adolescents appeared associated with a lower likelihood of taking the final examination at the end of ninth grade, according to results of a population-based cohort study conducted in Denmark and published in JAMA Psychiatry.