It means they have completed a training program after going to healing school, and they have taken certification examinations to decree their proficiency in a particular specialty of medicine.
Generally in the United States, doctors go to healing school for 4 years. After healing school, they will then go on for added post-graduate training at a hospital. This is known as an internship/residency. The internship is their 1st year of training after healing school. After that 1st year, many hospitals think the doctors to be in their residency. [This term comes from when doctors had to live on the hospital campus and de facto be ready day or night]. The distance of a residency varies from 3 years up to 7 years depending on the specialty. While a doctor's internship & residency, they are employees of the hospital, and are [supposed to be] working under the management of an attending [senior] physician. In principles it sounds nice, but it doesn't all the time work in reality- especially in large municipal hospitals where the volume of patients can be overwhelming.
After the physician completes their accredited internship/residency, then they go out into the 'real' world and start practicing medicine- whether in a group practice, a solo practice, or with a hospital. In many specialties, the physician must perfect 2 years of institution (called clinical practice) before becoming eligible to take their board certification exam.
A board certification exam is a national exam, given to doctors in a specialty to test their knowledge and experience. If a physician fails their board exam, they can retake it at a later date. Interestingly, they can continue to institution treatment in New York, without being board certified.
As long as the physician is licensed to institution medicine, they can institution everywhere they choose. A physician does not need to be board certified to institution treatment in New York. As a patient seeking healing services, you should ask your physician whether they are board certified, because this establishes the basic minimum standards that the physician must meet before being able to say that they are 'board certified'. If your physician has not passed his boards, then you know that there was some insufficiency with his/her capability to pass the exam.
Warning:
There are good doctors who are not board certified who are practicing treatment in New York. Likewise, there are board certified doctors who may not be good doctors. Just because man is board certified does not mean that they were not careless at a given point in time, nor does it mean that they are not responsible for injuries they may have caused you.
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