By now, any clinician who took the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification Exam in October 2015 will have received his or her exam results. Based on ABIM’s typical time frame, results for the fall exam were made available by mid-January, which is also when [...]
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) released a report [PDF] yesterday from its Assessment 2020 Task Force that recommends replacing the 10-year MOC exam with “meaningful, less burdensome” assessments that physicians could take at home or at the workplace. In addition, the panel recommends new assessments on [...]
If you are taking or have recently taken an ABIM Maintenance of Certification exam, you are probably spending a great deal of time thinking about ABIM results. Did you do enough to prepare? Did you study the right topics? How will your exam be scored? Is the process [...]
Overall ABIM pass rates fell from 90% passing in 2009 to just 78% passing in 2013 for first-time test takers of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) internal medicine board exam, according to statistics released annually by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The hard numbers from ABIM [...]
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 [...]