A Listserve for Certification?

Dear Colleagues,

I am responding to Arnie Richard’s note on the members list here on the openline since it is the proper venue for candidates for office in APsaA.

The matter of certification is probably the single most controversial issue within our organization. Resolution of this would afford us a giant step in the direction of focusing our energies much more effectively on our many other pressing difficulties in advancing our profession, our practices and not least of all our patients. It is now also clear that there is controversy within BOPS about certification with a number of institutes seeking more flexibility regarding TA appointment.

In my view Atrnie’s call for a moderated listserve discussion could be very helpful in generating a broad conversation on this subject and, hopefully enable us to truly understand our membership’s views on this matter. I am an optimist and I believe this will be a useful step in the development of a consensus on this issue. A crucial element is the issue of how it will be moderated so I think we need some discussion about this first. I do recall the value of the moderated list serves during Newell Fischer’s Presidency and this model might serve as a starting point. Hopefully such dialog and discussion will help bring us together.