Find COVID-19 Information from ABMS and its Member Boards
Throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its 24 Member...
Sponsor Spotlight: Gundersen Health System Takes on Childhood Vaccinations
Each year, approximately 42,000 adults and 300 children in the United States die from vaccine-preventable diseases, including measles and influenza. Communities with pockets of unvaccinated and under-vaccinated populations are at increased risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. According to the…
ABMS Publishes Summary of Improving Health and Health Care Symposium
In December 2020, ABMS convened nationally renowned experts and thought leaders for a virtual Symposium entitled The Next Generation of Board Certification: Improving Health and Health Care (IHHC) to discuss the role of improvement in continuing certification. This document provides…
Draft Standards for Continuing Certification — Call for Comments
Update: July 9, 2021: The 80-day American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Draft Standards for Continuing Certification Call for Comments is now closed. The Stakeholder feedback and commentary received are greatly appreciated and will guide and inform the development of…
Draft Standards for Continuing Certification Call for Comments Launches April 20, Remediation Task Force Completes Work
UPDATE: Call for Comments The 80-day American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Draft Standards for Continuing Certification Call for Comments is now closed. The Stakeholder feedback and commentary received are greatly appreciated and will guide and inform the development of…
Mitigating Implicit Biases in Certification Programs
Implicit biases contribute to systemic racism and health disparities in minority communities, but American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Member Boards can take steps to mitigate them in medical education, residency, and certification programs, noted speakers at ABMS Conference 2020…
Strategies to Eliminate Health Disparities Across Specialties
QI initiatives can play a role American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Member Boards can take several steps to eliminate health and health care disparities, from creating awareness about them to making the elimination of health inequities an expected competency,…
Health Care Disparities and the Latinx Population
By Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD, FACP, FACE, FACMQ; Program Director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship; Director for Diversity, Graduate Medical Education, UACOM-P; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Phoenix VAMC* Health inequities exacerbate…
ABMS Commits to Addressing DEI Across the Organization and Beyond
By Richard E. Hawkins, MD, ABMS President and Chief Executive Officer The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its Member Boards have a unique and distinct role in improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the health care community….
Plenary Speakers Call on Medical Community to Address Systemic Racism, Health Inequities
The medical community has an obligation to address structural racism and improve health equity, and the time to do it is now. That was the message delivered by plenary speakers at ABMS Conference 2020 – Virtual held this past September….
ABMS Member Boards Advance DEI Efforts
From staff initiatives to recruitment of URMs American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Member Boards are addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in myriad ways from efforts related to their governance and organizational culture to their certifying examinations and continuing…