Practitioner Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

March 2023
Researcher: Element Market Research, Inc.

Market research about practitioners’ perceptions towards recertification and its importance in providing quality healthcare.

Authors

Executive Summary

HRRI protects the public through regulatory research and collaborative exchange with strategic partners to promote evidence-based healthcare regulation. The organization has identified a need for information and intelligence related to practitioners’ perceptions towards recertification and its importance in providing quality healthcare.

Objectives

• Gauge the value that practitioners see in recertification and relicensing for themselves and their colleagues, as well as patients.

• Understand how important recertifications of practitioners is to them and how often they believe it should be done now.

• Gauge the extent to which practitioners believe the recertification process is particularly arduous and perhaps unnecessary.

• Determine what, if anything, practitioners would change about the recertification and relicensing processes to make them better.

• Measure the extent to which the practitioners believe the public is familiar with recertifications and relicensing. Determine how important practitioners think recertifications are to patients.

• Understand the extent to which the practitioners feel patients would stop seeing a practitioner who had not been recertified recently if recertifications were optional.

• Determine whether practitioners believe recertifications are costly to them and ultimately reduce the number of healthcare practitioners in the marketplace.

• Profile respondents by employment and practice-related characteristics and use that information in subgroup analysis.

Methodology

• Online survey consisted of 28 questions with a mix of closed and open-ended questions. To quality respondents had to:

  • Be U.S. residents

  • Work in healthcare as their primary role in one of nine provider types.

• 400 surveys completed August 27 - September 6, 2024:

  • Dentist (n=45)

  • Physical therapist (n=458)

  • Nurse / Nurse practitioner (n=50)

  • Physician (n=75)

  • Occupational therapist (n=19)

  • Physician Assistant (n=45)

  • Pharmacist (n=48)

  • Social worker (n=28)

  • Psychologist (n=45)

Additional Resources

Practitioner Duty To Report Substandard Care And Misconduct

Public Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

Regulator Perception of the Value of License Renewal/Recertification

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