What a complete joke. Why go to medical school anymore to become a pediatrician? Might as well become a midlevel - it would appear that the training level of the two professions will soon be the same.
No longer required: bag mask ventilation, bladder catheterization, giving immunizations, incision and drainage of abscess, lumbar puncture, endotracheal intubation, IV placement, simple laceration repair, temporary splinting of a fracture, UVC/UAC placement, chest tube placement, circumcision, thoracentesis...
Old requirements required 8-weeks EACH of both NICU and PICU . New requirements call for 12 weeks of intensive care total with only 4 weeks of NICU and 4 weeks of PICU.
You might as well forget having a pediatrician in rural areas or even smaller cities that do not have neonatologists available. It's already apparent that the recent resident graduates are hardly capable of handling neonatal resuscitation or ER codes; now you can completely forget it.
Sorry, I'm ranting. As a community pediatrician who covers a level II NICU and cares for select critical pediatric cases, I will no longer be able to recruit partners (without dumbing down our practice). Patient care and our community will suffer for it.