ABMS Statement Regarding Continuing Certification During COVID-19
ABMS Reaffirms Support for Physicians to Focus Their Priorities on Patients, Families, and the Communities...
Promoting Professionalism in Practice
While COVID-19 highlighted extreme professionalism exhibited by clinicians and other health care workers, it also exposed frailties in the social contract between the medical profession and the public. Speakers at ABMS Conference 2020 – Virtual, held this past September, discussed…
Pursuing Professionalism in Practice
Efforts to pursue professionalism in practice were outlined by three speakers at ABMS Conference 2020 – Virtual held this past September. Addressing behaviors that undermine a culture of safety and respect helps support physicians in their pursuit of professionalism, noted…
What Recent Research on Professionalism Reveals
Research on the impact of the changing health care ecosystem on professionalism, the physicians’ view of engagement, and components of a remediation program were topics addressed by three speakers at ABMS Conference 2020 – Virtual held this past September. Differing…
Professionalism Speaks to Belief System, Public Confidence, and So Much More
By Mark T. Keegan, MB, MRCPI, MSc, D.ABA, FCCM, Professor of Anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, a renewed appreciation of the roles of health care workers has emerged. The professionalism of…
Preparing Physicians for Professionalism in Practice
Adopting consistent standards of professionalism across organizations that train and certify physicians, using system-level educational outcomes to address system problems, and incorporating professionalism attributes into medical education are all ways to prepare and educate physicians about professionalism, according to speakers…
ABMS Draft Standards for Continuing Certification Call for Comments Delayed Until April 2021 Due to COVID-19
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) had been prepared to release the Draft Standards for Continuing Certification – Call for Comments (Call for Comments) in early December, in accordance with the timeframes established in the Continuing Board Certification: Vision…
Physician Board Certification Continues to Grow—920,000+ in US are Board Certified
American Board of Medical Specialties Releases Its Annual Board Certification Report Top 10 States forBoard Certified Physicians California (108,341) New York (70,490) Texas (61,890) Florida (50,797) Pennsylvania (41,029) Illinois (36,432) Ohio (32,388) Massachusetts (30,474) New Jersey (27,162) North Carolina (26,959)…
American Board of Medical Specialties Statement on Credentialing During COVID-19
The onset and continued progression of the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely disruptive to both the initial and continuing certification processes for American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Member Boards. Recognizing the value that physicians, patients, hospitals and health systems…
Commission Meets to Offer Input on Task Force Work To-Date
ABMS and NBME have published a proceedings paper capturing the presentations and information shared at “Advancing Assessment of Professionalism in Continuing Certification,” a jointly hosted symposium last year …
ABMS, NBME Publish Proceedings Paper of Professionalism Symposium
This proceedings paper will help carve a pathway forward not only for ABMS and NBME, but for the profession at large …