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 [...]
Editor's Note: This post about one physician's experience with ABIM maintenance of certification was previously published in CardioExchange, an online community hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch. John E. Brush, MD, is a practicing cardiologist and professor of medicine at Eastern Virginia [...]
On March 10, 2014, an online petition was launched requesting that the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recall recent changes to its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process. As of this writing, the petition had obtained 17,092 signatures, representing an average signing rate of approximately 160 signatures per [...]
In ABIM Review — How Reflection Aids Performance, I highlighted new research showing that if you just keep repeating the same task over and over again without taking the time to step back and think about it, you may not be performing as well as those who spend [...]
There's so little time in the day to keep up with medical knowledge, let alone ABIM review. But a little time spent reflecting on your learning could go a long way. In a recent paper titled "Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance," researchers Giada Di Stefano of [...]