Everyone deserves the best health care possible. Like you, ABMS is focused on improving the health of patients and how care is delivered.
We believe the best care is provided by physicians who are ABMS Member Board certified. Participation by physicians and specialists in an ABMS Member Board certification program has a positive impact on patient care, improves outcomes, and serves as an important tool for patients, health care organizations, and physicians. See how ABMS serves the public and the profession.
Physicians and specialists who achieve ABMS Member Board certification and meet the requirements for continuing certification contribute to an environment of professionalism and a culture of employee retention. Having ABMS board certified physicians and specialists on your staff or as members helps distinguish your organization from others. It demonstrates to consumers that your organization attracts only the most skilled and experienced health care professionals.
The higher standards of ABMS Member Boards’ certification programs verify that an individual is always learning, researching, and transforming to enhance the care they provide.
ABMS board certification helps in making informed decisions to:
Connect with the boards to ask a question or learn more about their certification programs and requirements.
Did you know that ABMS Member Boards offer certification in 40 specialties and 88 subspecialties?
Find out why ABMS board certification is the recognized and trusted leader by the public and the profession.
Learn how our values, standards, and programs inspire innovation, engagement, and action toward better patient care.
ABMS offers programs and services to support an environment of highly competent specialists providing high-quality health care.
Become an ABMS Portfolio Program Sponsor to stimulate innovation and offer your physicians, specialists, and PAs a simple way to earn QI credit for continuing certification
BECOME A SPONSOR
Introduce your early-career staff to the ABMS Visiting Scholars Program, an opportunity to advance their leadership skills and research and become active contributors within the ABMS research community
EXPLORE SCHOLARS
Create personalized assessments utilizing longitudinal assessment to support ongoing professional development with the CertLink assessment platform
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Make your certification verification process easy and efficient with a suite of options from ABMS Solutions
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Brian T. Garibaldi, MD, MEHP“I am grateful for all I learned from my experience as an ABMS Visiting Scholar and encourage early-career physicians to see for themselves how it can support, and even amplify their career aspirations, whether they are focused on patient care, education, or research.”
American Board of Internal Medicine ABMS Visiting Scholar Alum
Brenessa M. Lindeman, MD, MEHP“The ABMS Visiting Scholars Program’s ability to take early-career faculty and broaden their horizons to understand that there is more behind the education and training processes is inspiring. Thanks to the program, I met and reconnected with so many brilliant minds who are making broad, sweeping changes in the field.”
American Board of Surgery ABMS Visiting Scholar Alum
Joel Tieder, MD, MPH Seattle Children's Hospital“The ABMS Portfolio Program has become a catalyst to engage physicians in QI work. It provides a platform for physicians to bring their ideas forward for doing meaningful QI work in their area of expertise. At the same time, many of the QI projects align with the strategic priorities of the hospital.”
Donna Ray, MD Prisma Health“Having the ABMS Portfolio Program in a system like ours just makes sense. Our health care professionals are doing the work; we are here to make sure they earn the continuing certification credit appropriate to their efforts.”
John Stoeckle, MD, CHQS Valley Preferred-Lehigh Valley Health Network“In today’s health care environment, everything we do has to create added value and even efficiencies for clinicians, and the ABMS Portfolio Program contributes to that.”
Katie O’Reilly, MD American Board of Radiology“I have found ABPath CertLink to be the best way to fulfill the objective of lifelong learning and stay current with best practices and knowledge in my specialty. I now look forward to receiving emails alerting me to new CertLink questions.”
ABMS Insights is our free quarterly newsletter featuring news about board certification and the 24 certifying boards that compose ABMS. Learn about their latest programs, initiatives, and innovations, and hear from guest columnists.