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What Hospital Administrators Need to Know About Physician Choice for Board Certification
When making staffing decisions, it is incumbent on hospital administrators to ensure that they have the best candidate pool available. One of the most trusted indicators of a physician’s abilities is the successful completion of a board certification program. Currently, in the United States there are three primary, multi-specialty physician certifying organizations – the AMA, AOA, and ABPS – and ...
Physician Leadership is Growing in Importance
One of the biggest changes to American healthcare in the 21st century has been the rapid growth in the need for physician leaders with business-oriented skillsets. Historically, physicians have been able to focus the lion’s share of their time on patient care, worrying less about day-to-day management and more about ensuring that their patients were as healthy as possible. However, ...
About ABPS Board Certified Physicians
For a physician to be qualified to practice medicine, he or she must be licensed in the state in which they wish to work. Board certification is the natural next step for physician credentialing. Board certification is a tool that is used to legitimize the training and mastery of core concepts that a physician has in his or her specialty, ...
The Changing Role of Physician Leaders
The need for physician leaders has never been greater. As the healthcare industry continues to undergo significant changes, there is a clear opportunity for physicians with extensive administrative experience to rise up and assume leadership positions that are too often filled by executives who do not possess medical training. At the American Board of Physician Specialties® (ABPS), we developed the ...
Emergency Department Physicians: Have You Demonstrated Your Competency in Emergency Medicine?
One would think that family medicine and emergency medicine would be two specialties that go hand-in-hand. After all, these specialties treat patients of all ages, gender, and health. Yet, there is an interesting competition between those board certified in family medicine and those in emergency medicine. This competition is particularly fascinating when you consider that many emergency departments are staffed ...
Family Medicine Obstetrics: Board Certification Exam Overview
The Board of Certification in Family Medicine Obstetrics® (BCFMO), which is governed by the American Board of Physician Specialties®, offers two options for certification—Family Medicine Obstetrics and Family Medicine Obstetrics With Surgical Qualification. Exams for the surgical option consist of a computer-based written test and an oral examination covering five case studies. The exam for the non-surgical option is the ...
About the BCFM’s Family Medicine Exam for Board Certification
The Board of Certification in Family Medicine (BCFM) is a Member Board of the American Board of Physician Specialties® (ABPS), one of three nationally distinguished physician board certifying bodies. The examination offered by the BCFM is a clinically based, written test designed to allow a family medicine specialist to demonstrate his or her proficiency in the core competencies required to ...
Internal Medicine Board Certification Eligibility Requirements
The eligibility requirements vary for physicians to become qualified to seek board certification through the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS), but there are several base-line requirements that all of the ABPS Member Boards share. These include owning an unrestricted medical license for every state in which the physician is licensed, annual attestation to the currency of those unrestricted medical ...
Physician Board Certification in Anesthesiology Through the ABPS
Physician board certification in Anesthesiology through the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) gives successful candidates the chance to present themselves to the public as qualified medical specialists in anesthesiology. It also reveals a professional commitment to abide by the ABPS medical code of ethics, adherence to which is required for all recertification candidates. The Board of Certification in Anesthesiology ...
ABPS Board Certification for Family Physicians in Emergency Medicine
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) is committed to enabling eligible family physicians with extensive experience in emergency medicine to become board certified in Emergency Medicine. The goal is to provide board certification for career emergency physicians whose extensive experience in emergency medicine might be overlooked or disregarded by other board certification bodies. To the ABPS, experience matters, and ...
