Professionalism goes beyond maintaining an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine. It also means prioritizing patient needs, staying current in your field, and holding to the highest ethical standards.
Continuing Certification Update: Introducing New Quality Improvement Opportunities!
In 2023, ABPMR committed to easing the burden of fulfilling CC requirements by enhancing the Quality Improvement (QI - soon to be referred to as Improving Health and Health Care or IHHC) component with additional opportunities available to receive QI credit in recognition of diplomates’ ongoing quality improvement efforts.Read more here!
Meet our ABMS Visiting Scholar: Allison Wallingford, MD
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has selected Allison Wallingford, MD as the first-ever representative of the ABPMR in its 2024–2025 Visiting Scholars Program™.Read more here!
Volunteer Spotlight
This month our Volunteer Spotlight is Dr. Geoffrey Seidel from Southeast Michigan. Click to read more about his journey into PM&R and the 100-mile bike ride he does every year!Read more!
Keeping up with LA: Quarter 4 Articles Available for Selection
In an effort to help diplomates prepare for their 4th Quarter article-based questions, the ABPMR is providing the list of articles to choose from now. Click to see the list of articles.Read more here
Paralympic Cycling: Learn more with Dr. Matt McLaughlin
ABPMR volunteer Matt McLaughlin, MD, MS, FAAPMR also spends his time volunteering with the Cycling Paralympics. Read more about his recent trip to Rio de Janeiro!Read more!
QI Project: Opioid Management: Physician Drug Monitoring Program to Identify Multiple Opioid Prescriptions and Contraindicated Drugs
This month our QI Project Spotlight was submitted by Tram Nguyen, MD and Hoyman Hong, MD. Click more to read about their project.Read more here!
New LA-BIM platform video tutorials
ABPMR launched a new LA-BIM platform in 2024. To assist users on using the new platform, we have created three informational videos to help you navigate it.Watch them here!
Announcing a New and Improved Platform for Longitudinal Assessment (LA) for PM&R Beginning in 2025
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Read the 2024 summer edition of the ABPMR newsletter
Your source for relevant and timely information about your PM&R certification.Read it here!
Spinal Cord Injury Medicine (SCIM) and Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) Move to Longitudinal Assessment (LA) for Continuing Certification Requirements in 2025
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Part I Practice Analysis Completed
The Part I Examination Content Outline has been simplified in presentation to be more user-friendly for candidates studying for the exam. The new outline is validated by data collected in the 2023 practice analysis, and ensures the Part I Examination continues to reflect the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of practicing physiatrists.Click here to learn more!
For Residents
Your Roadmap to Certification
Welcome to the start of your journey to PM&R certification.
Board certification demonstrates your knowledge, skills, and competence to your employer, your peers, and your patients. Once you reach the end of residency, your certification journey begins. The ABPMR is here to give you a roadmap to certification and beyond.
For Our Diplomates
Making Continuing Certification Matter
The ABPMR Continuing Certification (CC) Program helps you keep your knowledge current, your practice improving, and your clinical skills sharp throughout your career — but it’s not really about you. It’s about your patients. When applied to your practice effectively, CC helps you continue raising the bar of excellence in patient care.
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Professionalism
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Lifelong Learning
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are the backbone of the CC Program. By completing about 40 CME credits a year, including 8 Self-Assessment CME credits, you’re ensuring your clinical knowledge is always current.
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Assessment
Longitudinal assessment is designed to assess knowledge while helping physicians learn and improve over time. Questions may be answered at your own pace and are customizable across five domains.
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Quality Improvement
Quality improvement (QI) projects offer a chance to demonstrate how you’re continually improving for your patients — and to give you the tools to measure and quantify that improvement. (Tip: This requirement may be more straightforward than you think.)
Certification Matters
Is your doctor certified?
When you need to put your health into a professional’s hands, you want to be confident in your physician’s evaluation, advice, and treatment plan. One of the best ways to be assured you’re getting good care is to choose a doctor who is board certified.