Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Board Exam

[IMDoc607]

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Just an FYI for those out there contemplating heart failure as a career choice. The AOA will be offering their first certification exam in August of 2019. It was recently released in the most recent ACOI newsletter.

 

[mk04447]

Not being a smart ass by any means... I'm interested in cardiology and what does this mean?

 

[nlax30]

As far as I know there's not an an AOA Advanced HF fellowship....

 

[IMDoc607]

As far as I know there's not an an AOA Advanced HF fellowship....

You are correct that it does not have a HF fellowship but the ACGME does. What’s your point?

 

[IMDoc607]

Not being a smart ass by any means... I'm interested in cardiology and what does this mean?

This means that if you want to pursue training in advanced heart failure but have AOA board certification you are now able to take an exam to certify yourself in Advanced Heart Failure.

 

[BorntobeDO?]

This means that if you want to pursue training in advanced heart failure but have AOA board certification you are now able to take an exam to certify yourself in Advanced Heart Failure.

So you would train ACGME and then voluntarily go back and pay the AOA extra to be certified by them, despite the fact that they didn't do the training? I don't foresee that penciling out often.

 

[nlax30]

You are correct that it does not have a HF fellowship but the ACGME does. What’s your point?

Only that there’s not an AOA HF fellowship.... is their intention just to allow a road to HF certification for those DOs who happened to be only AOBIM boarded and then go on to complete an ACGME HF fellowship and thus can’t sit for the ABIM subspeciality HF exam?

 

[nlax30]

So you would train ACGME and then voluntarily go back and pay the AOA extra to be certified by them, despite the fact that they didn't do the training? I don't foresee that penciling out often.

Well, the current problem is that if a DO is boarded through AOBIM (did an osteopathic residency/fellowship) and then goes on to do an ACGME/allopathic fellowship then as far as I know there’s no current process in place to allow them to take that sub-specialty’s ABIM exam. Even though they did an ACGME program they would have had to be boarded through ABIM (IM and Cardio) to sit for the respective exam. Instead they have to request permission essentially to take the AOBIM (osteopathic) subspecialty exam for that field.

 

[IMDoc607]

So you would train ACGME and then voluntarily go back and pay the AOA extra to be certified by them, despite the fact that they didn't do the training? I don't foresee that penciling out often.

Correct.....I can tell you first hand this has occurred more frequently than you think. There are many DO’s not board certified in HF because if this.