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, [...]
Earlier this week, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) issued a written response to all internal medicine physicians, addressing concerns about recent changes to Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements. ABIM acknowledged "a palpable level of anger among internists and internal medicine subspecialists" as well as a "sense [...]
I have been a board-certified gastroenterologist since 1977. Last fall, I decided to register for the internal medicine exam even though I was not required to do so at the time because I was "grandfathered in." A renewed interest and emphasis in general medicine had been spreading in [...]