American Board of Medical Specialties Announces New Standards for Continuing Certification
ABMS Board of Directors approved new Standards for Continuing Certification at its October meeting, culminating...
ABMS Member Boards Promote Professionalism
Professionalism is a vital aspect of patient care and a key tenet of American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) board certification. For ABMS, professionalism represents a belief system and behaviors that support trustworthy relationships between patients and their physicians. In…
PCC Strives to Strengthen Professional Certification
Starting in 2018, a wave of proposed legislative bills that would have banned the use of the term certified for anyone who did not receive a government-issued credential was sweeping across the country. Lawmakers didn’t fully understand how private certification…
ABMS Member Boards Update their Professionalism Policies
Each of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Member Boards is expected to develop and implement its own Policy on Professionalism tailored to the clinical context of its specialties and subspecialties. ABMS defines medical professionalism as “a belief system…
Professional Certification Bodies Should Uphold Public Trust by Enforcing Codes of Conduct
If licensing boards are hesitant to take action to protect the public and uphold the standards and values of a credentialed profession, certification organizations can step into the breach to protect public trust in their credentials.
ABMS Approves Professional Conduct Policy
Professionalism is a shared value across the ABMS Member Boards and a core element of ABMS board certification. To preserve the trustworthiness of the credential, the ABMS Board of Directors recently approved its Policy on Professional Conduct …
ABMS Conference 2022 Will Bring Together Hundreds of Health Care Professionals—In Person and Virtually—to Improve Health Care
Contact: Susan MorrisAVP, Communications(312) 436-2624smorris@abms.org CHICAGO – September 7, 2022—The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the leading not-for-profit organization that oversees U.S. physician certification, will host ABMS Conference 2022 in-person at the Loews O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont, Ill. and…
ABMS Announces a Record Number of Visiting Scholars for 2022-2023 Class
Contact: Susan MorrisAVP, Communications(312) 436-2624smorris@abms.org Ten physicians receive financial awards for research in physician assessment, continuing professional development, and quality improvement CHICAGO – August 29, 2022—Thanks to unprecedented sponsor support, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) was able to…
The American Board of Medical Specialties Response to National Board of Physicians and Surgeons’ Assertion of Certifying Body Equivalency
ABMS disagrees with the misleading assertion that NBPAS’ recertification provides a means of continuing ABMS board certification or is equivalent to ABMS board certification. Claims of equivalence to ABMS certification or that NBPAS is a means to maintain ABMS Member Board certification are misleading to the profession, and most importantly, to the public who depend upon the strength of ABMS board certification.
Study Summarizes the Rationale and Purpose of Continuing Certification
As certifying boards continue to evolve their certification programs to focus on more frequent, learner-engaged assessments, a recently published comprehensive report synthesizes findings from over 600 studies to describe the foundational evidence behind the need for continuous certification. The American…
ABMS Announces New Board of Directors and Executive Committee Members
ABMS, the leading not-for-profit organization overseeing specialty board certification in the United States, is pleased to announce the election of new members to the Board of Directors, as well as to the Executive Committee, at the ABMS Board of Directors meeting held in late June.