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Throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its 24 Member...
Throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its 24 Member...
ABMS and its 24 Member Boards join the healthcare community and patients from across the country in celebrating the enormous dedication, passion, and commitment its Board Certified physicians contribute to our nation’s health…
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its 24 Member Boards commend the members of the Continuing Board Certification: Vision of the Future Commission (Commission) for their dedication and hard work in creating their final report (PDF) for the ABMS Board of Directors…
ABMS released its 2019 edition of the ABMS Guide to Medical Specialties, providing a comprehensive listing of the specialty certifications offered by the 24 ABMS Member Boards and descriptions of each specialty and subspecialty. Currently, there are 40 specialties and 87 subspecialties in which ABMS Members Boards offer certificates.
As a Boards Community, we encourage all of our stakeholders to review the draft findings and recommendations and offer their comments by the January 15, 2019 deadline.
On Wednesday, November 7, 2018, after months of stakeholder discussions, the Maryland Health Care Commission’s Maintenance of Certification Work Group issued its final report. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is encouraged by the overall findings of the work…
Council will serve as advisory body representing volunteer physician, patient, and public interests.
More than 880,000 physicians in the United States are board certified; California, New York, and Texas are the states with the largest number of active physician certificates; and Neurological Care is the newest approved subspecialty certification. These are just a sampling of facts and statistics found in the latest ABMS Board Certification Report …
In its letter, DOJ affirms that hospitals and health plans should be free to set their own quality standards and admonishes that any legislation to prevent consideration of MOC would diminish free, open, and fair competition among legitimate certifying bodies and might itself have anti-competitive effects. The DOJ acknowledges the value to consumers and health systems of “certifying that a provider has demonstrated a certain level of training, testing, or experience over and above other providers.”
Developed by a multi-specialty editorial board brought together by the ABMS, the American Geriatrics Society, and funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, new virtual patient cases include a host of critical issues for older adults facing surgery, from medication management to end-of-life care planning…
Nominations are now closed.
New advisory body to the ABMS Board of Directors representing volunteer physicians and patient/public interests, to ensure that the Board makes decisions grounded in an understanding of the perspectives, concerns, and interests of multiple constituents impacted by the work of ABMS …