As part of our mission to provide the most efficient and engaging platform for continuous learning and board review, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to help you prepare for your board exams, board certification, and recertification. We recently surveyed readers of Physician’s First Watch [...]
We’re pleased to announce a major update to the NEJM Knowledge+ apps for iPhone and iPad. You asked; we listened: the app for iPhone now includes the longer, case-based questions with images. With this change, the iPhone version contains all of the adaptive learning material that you find [...]
Have you gotten all you can squeeze out of your continuing medical education (CME) credits and your Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points? It’s important to make every internal medicine CME credit and MOC point you’ve earned count. Did you know that you can claim MOC points for completing [...]
Does the average patient know or care about medical board certification? An ABMS consumer survey finds that 91% of consumers claim that board certification is "somewhat important" to "very important" as a criterion for selecting a doctor. However, the same study finds that 78% of consumers incorrectly believe [...]
By the time you’ve finished your residency, you’ve taken – and aced – many exams. Nevertheless, the prospect of facing the ABIM certification exam may seem unnerving to you. Why is this? You’ve taken other day-long exams before, including 2 days of testing for the USMLE Step 3 [...]
With so much controversy swirling around the changes in ABIM Maintenance of Certification, we thought it might be interesting and instructive to gain perspectives from so-called super certifiers — physicians who elect to maintain not just one but multiple subspecialty certifications throughout their clinical careers. Jack Ringler, MD, [...]