ABIM announces focused practice in hospital medicine certification
Medical Staff Briefing, December 1, 2009
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If hospitalists felt like they were trapped by a glass ceiling in the past, they can consider it broken. The American Board of Internal Medicine has announced a five-year pilot program for focused practice in hospital medicine (FPHM). The ABIM is a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS).
FPHM, sometimes referred to as recognition of focused practice, is creating buzz in the hospitalist world because it is the first maintenance of certification (MOC) that is based on professional experience, not on education, says Bob Wachter, MD, professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a member of the ABIM board of directors.
“This is not only a new kind of credential in hospital medicine, but it is a new kind of credential for the certifying board in that we are credentialing you not based on additional training, but rather based on what you have been doing for a living,” says Wachter.
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