Continuing education for the specialist.

Specialists are having many difficulties defining and developing more effective methods in the area of continuing medical education. Present unorganized multifaceted mechanisms are too little utilized by the majority to be acceptable. A cooperative effort by parent specialty organizations, accredited hospital staffs and the State Board of Medical Examiners could explore the possibility of establishing standards by which a qualitative and quantitative review of the level of performance of physicians could be done. The initiative must be exercised by these groups to forestall governmental intervention.