[zizee]

Medical doctors have a professional organization enforcing strict standards. People cannot practice medicine without passing a series of standardized exams that only recognized universities can administrator, they have and a lengthy internship process, review board etc. If they break the rules they can have their licence suspended.

I think it would be a shame to bring this sort of thing to software development, but it would allow us to get rid of some of the hoops people have to jump through to ensure they can actually do the job being hired for.