Board Eligible

[lazers]

How does one become board eligible? Do you have to pass the physics test during 3rd year to become BE? Thanks.

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[Gfunk6]

My understanding is that you are board eligible the day you pay your first dues to the ABR as a PGY-2. You remain board eligible until one of two things happen:

1. You pass oral boards and become board-certified
2. You fail either written or oral boards enough times (? x3) and are rendered permanently board ineligible

 

[medgator]

My understanding is that you are board eligible the day you pay your first dues to the ABR as a PGY-2. You remain board eligible until one of two things happen:

1. You pass oral boards and become board-certified
2. You fail either written or oral boards enough times (? x3) and are rendered permanently board ineligible

Concerning #2, I think that used to be the case, but now the ABR has stepped up against folks who never passed their boards, still want to use the BE moniker as a feather in their cap.

In early Jan of this year, the ABR sent this out via email:

The ABR has a policy on initial radiation oncology (RO) certification that went into effect in January 2009. Under the policy, candidates must attain initial certification within 10 years following completion of residency training. If a RO candidate does not attain certification within the 10-year period, he/she will no longer be considered active in the examination process (some refer to this as "board eligible") and may not claim any such status with the American Board of Radiology for any purpose, such as credentialing, privileging, or advertising.

Candidates with residency completion dates between 2004 and 2013 who have not yet attained initial certification have ten years from the end of training to do so.
If initial radiation oncology certification is not attained within this 10-year period of eligibility, one year of additional training at an institution with an ACGME-accredited or RCPSC-accredited radiation oncology residency program is required before a candidate may re-enter the examination process.

 

[lazers]

My understanding is that you are board eligible the day you pay your first dues to the ABR as a PGY-2. You remain board eligible until one of two things happen:

1. You pass oral boards and become board-certified
2. You fail either written or oral boards enough times (? x3) and are rendered permanently board ineligible

Do you know exactly how many times you have to pass the boards?

 

[Gfunk6]

See medgator's response above. It sounds like you have 10 years to get BC after residency (# of failures irrelevant). Then you become permanently board ineligible.

 

[medgator]

See medgator's response above. It sounds like you have 10 years to get BC after residency (# of failures irrelevant). Then you become permanently board ineligible.

with the caveat in the second paragraph:

If initial radiation oncology certification is not attained within this 10-year period of eligibility, one year of additional training at an institution with an ACGME-accredited or RCPSC-accredited radiation oncology residency program is required before a candidate may re-enter the examination process.

 

[Gfunk6]

with the caveat in the second paragraph:

Though technically true, I would be pretty shocked to see (a) an attending go back to residency for one year after becoming board ineligible and (b) actually see a program willing to take and re-mediate said attending.

 

[medgator]

Though technically true, I would be pretty shocked to see (a) an attending go back to residency for one year after becoming board ineligible and (b) actually see a program willing to take and re-mediate said attending.

Yeah sounds like a pretty far-out scenario to me.