Pressed by their leaders, external stakeholders, and a public troubled by lapses in the quality of care and unsustainable cost increases, physicians are facing stiffer challenges in initiatives designed to link more closely the goals of learning with the delivery of better care and measures of greater accountability. The initiatives are works in progress being implemented by national accreditin...

Of great interest to cardiologists who perform invasive procedures is the new added qualification certification program of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in interventional cardiology. Those of us with gray (or little) hair not only remember when cardiology training was only 2 years in length, but also remember those oral examinations in cardiology. Since then, the oral examinati...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Outcome Project requires that residency program directors objectively document that their residents achieve competence in 6 general dimensions of practice. INTERVENTION In November 2007, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ACGME initiated the development of milestones for internal medicine residency...

The purpose of this paper was to determine if the decline in performance with time since completion of training on the 1980 ABIM Recertification Examination can be explained by a difference in performance on items testing different types of knowledge. Results showed that candidates further out of training performed less well on items testing new or changing knowledge, while performance on items...

PROFICIENCY in the psychosocial aspects of medical care is essential for physicians t-s and requires the development of appropriate interviewing, diagnostic, and therapeutic skills. 6"17 Professional organizations, including the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), have defined training needs in psychosocial medicine and interviewing. 18-22 Physicians must demonstrate competence in these...

Objectives To evaluate the relationship between the pass rate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying exam and the characteristics of residency programs. Methods The study used a retrospective, cross-sectional design with publicly available data from the ABIM and the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database. All categorical residency programs with reported p...

During the past 25 years, development of Pediatric and Adolescent Sleep Medicine (PASM) has become an imperative child health care discipline. During the past decade, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) prepared a modern path for certification in competency in the practice of Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) by applying for recognition of sleep medici...