Talk:Center for Personalized Education for Physicians

Experience with CPEP can be variable. They have a questionable setup because they self refer and their charges are not cheap. Initial evaluation costs nearly $9000.00 for competency assessment. This puts them at a large conflict of interest that would never be tolerated in any physician practice, or in dealings with Medicare, for example. There is no video or audio tape of their clinical interviews, and some of the cases are "trick questions". Also the physician interviewers sometimes mumble or make rapid monotone speech or cannot be heard, or make a sport of one-upsmanship. The resulting opinions then output by the reviewers are highly questionable to some, such as saying a physician is unknowledgeable in an area even when he gives perfectly good answers. The "pretend" patients are subject to be decrepit confused elderly people who answer questions in a manner that self contradicts over and over, and real sourpusses who don't want one touching their abdomens to check their liver, saying you are invading their personal space. Their education "plans" are extraordinarily long-winded and complicated and virtually incomprehensible as to how they should be implemented. One hospital administrator called these plans "insane". The education plans are really a long prescription for the physician to knock their brains out to set out and institute a PhD level of course of study, while paying CPEP $800.00 a month for about 12-18 months, followed by $4000.00 more for end of study "evaluation". Then and only then, they might stop charging all these exorbitant fees and give you a good seal of approval for a license board so you can keep your license and suddenly be "competent". One advocate for physicians called CPEP a bunch of "thugs" and one's experience certainly makes on feels one has been viciously mugged.