ABEM vs ABOEM

[Buckeye1992]

Graduating DO from 3 year ACGME program. I am pretty sure I am eligible for either certification. Have been planning on doing ABEM. Any reason I should do ABOEM instead?

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[Pigg-O-Stat]

Nope.

In fact, I got an email recently about AOA awarding "reciprocal certification" without taking any exam...

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[Oligodinero]

I've got a question about this. If you're a DO and do ABEM over ABOEM, do you still have to do DO-specific Cat. 1A CME or will any Cat. 1 count towards that....or is that a state license thing for all DOs?

 

[gamerEMdoc]

Thats a state licensure thing.

 

[Rekt]

Just do ABEM. There's no reason to support any form of osteopathic boards.

 

[Oligodinero]

Just do ABEM. There's no reason to support any form of osteopathic boards.

Yeah absolutely. I'd love to also take Step 3 rather than Level 3 just to stick it to the NBOME.....but that'll depend upon where I match on Friday I suppose.

 

[Buckeye1992]

Would that be a problem for licensing? I wasn’t eligible to take step 3 before but now with the CS going away I would be. I mean I already passed level 3 so it doesn’t matter for me but didn’t realize you could do step instead.

 

[Buckeye1992]

Being a DO sucks when you take comlex 1 2 3 and step 1 and 2.

 

[Fox800]

Skip AOBEM. No need, superfluous organization. ABEM is what everything will be compared to.

The AOBEM is fast fading into irrelevance.

 

[bravotwozero]

What's funny is that the American Osteopathic Association used to have a policy that in order to maintain osteopathic board certification, you had to maintain membership in the AOA. It was a nice little extortion racket for them, shaking down docs for 800-1000 plus dollars for board certification. Fortunately, a class action lawsuit, which I knew was going to happen at some point, put an end to this requirement when the court ruled against the AOA's requirement.

 

[sylvanthus]

Yup, when I learned that membership was linked to board certification, I knew id never sign up with the AOA as an attending.

 

[Oligodinero]

Would that be a problem for licensing? I wasn’t eligible to take step 3 before but now with the CS going away I would be. I mean I already passed level 3 so it doesn’t matter for me but didn’t realize you could do step instead.

You can as long as you don't plan to practice in one of the handful of states which require the entire COMLEX series to be licensed as a DO. Most states will accept either the entire USMLE or COMLEX series.

 

[Dr.TurkandJD]

Only reason I chose to take AOBEM is because I want to take it during last year of residency and get it out of the way... if AOA/AOBEM ceases to exist, which they will in the future, I don't think they will make 10k of AOBEM docs reboard ABEM. Will likely grandfather everyone in.

 

[Fox800]

AOBEM and COMLEX both (at an organizational level) need to die in a fire. That is all.