NCARB's decision to reduce the required number of hours for IDP (the Intern Development Program) couldn't have come at a better time. Good on NCARB for making these important changes -- shortening the ARE and now IDP! " IDP Streamline ," as it's known (not to be confused with the much more sinister Operation Streamline ), has reduced the required hours by 1/3, by eliminating the "supplemental" (read: pointless) hours that were required beyond the "core" hours. Those extra hours could be in any category of work; they were just filler to make IDP last an extra year. But no more! Now once you finish the core hours, satisfying all the requirements for breadth of experience, you're done. Thankfully, California follows the national IDP requirements, so as soon as IDP Streamline took effect in July, my target date for getting licensed moved up by about a year. Thanks, NCARB! And so it came to pass that on August 15th, I filed my final ho...
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