Residency board certification requirements and preoperative surgical home activities in the United States: comparing anesthesiology, family medicine, internal medicine, and surgery.

Abstract

Thus, any of these specialties could take the lead in provid-ing perioperative care.However, the 2014 Institute of Medicine report on gradu-ate medical education in the United States noted that there is “a gap between new physicians’ knowledge and skills and the competencies required for current medical practice.”