Board certification remains a vital marker of professional integrity and mastery. Yet, as Dr. Richard Katz underscores, it is not an end goal it is part of an enduring promise to uphold medicine’s ideals of learning, accountability, and humanity. In a healthcare system defined by transformation, his insights reaffirm a timeless truth: excellence in medicine is not granted by a credential, but sustained through a lifelong commitment to knowledge, ethics, and the trust of every patient served.
