Editor's note: This is the second in a series. ROCHESTER— Most teachers will agree, the most common question asked in the classroom is the age-old inquiry of "Why?" "Why are we learning this," ...

Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing ...

Several experts are calling for competency testing for physicians aged 65 years or older. Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) met this past June to discuss guidelines for testing older ...

As millions of Americans approach age 66, they face the inevitable question, is it time to retire? The physician population is aging alongside the general population – more than 40% of physicians in ...

At the American Medical Association s annual meeting, officials said they are developing mandatory competency guidelines for aging physicians. With more than a quarter of doctors over the age of 65, ...

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted in its June meeting that the time has come to address the issue of aging physicians more systematically, perhaps with formal guidelines and ...

There’s something sloppy about efforts by the Kaduna State government to ensure quality control in its education system by tracking the competency of teachers. Rather than beef up standards, those ...

WASHINGTON — The state psychiatric hospital charged with evaluating whether Catherine Hoggle is competent to stand trial for the murder of her two young children says Montgomery County prosecutors ...

Medical doctors are becoming victims of age discrimination in Las Vegas. So asserts Dr. Dale Carrison, the 77-year-old chief of staff at University Medical Center and the hospital’s head of emergency ...

It's not uncommon for physicians to push back against age-based competency testing or even go so far as to call the practice discriminatory. Proponents of screening, however, argue that it's a ...

As part of its ongoing initiative to regulate previously unenrolled tax return preparers, the IRS announced on Tuesday that competency testing for registered tax return preparers will start next week ...