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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]