Continuing Certification a Cash Cow for Emergency Medicine Board

[bravotwozero]

Way to go ABEM!

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) spent more than a half a million dollars on its two board of directors meetings in fiscal year 2018-2019.

For its winter meeting, the organization flew about 30 board members and ABEM staff -- some accompanied by family members -- to Maui and lodged them for about a week at the luxury Fairmont Kea Lani resort.

The total cost was $317,419, according to ABEM budget documents provided to MedPage Today.

Continuing Certification a Cash Cow for Emergency Medicine Board

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[AlmostAnMD]

Our ED SDG has a lot of ED docs in admin roles in the hospital system

I asked one of them a while ago about making a new board for credentialing purposes.

My idea involved basically just making a shell of a organization that would have applicants over zoom share their screen and log into their ABEM account to verify they passed their written exam.

Once we see that we grant lifetime certification.

It isn't getting much traction yet but I keep pushing. As a recent recipient (the most recent, actually) of diplomate status following the virtually useful virtual oral exam, I do think the entire organization needs to be booted. I feel zero pride whatsoever in board certification especially seeing the myriad of pointless MOC BS.

I'll keep pushing them. I want to make it happen.

 

[bravotwozero]

OR, we can just get jobs at ABEM, go to fully paid for 'conferences' in Waikiki, and make over $500k a year without having to see a single patient!

 

[GeneralVeers]

It's just typical. I remember going on a few of these "leadership retreats" with Dbag and Kevin back in the day. It was only the Marriott Wailea, and not the Fairmont. I guess ABEM is the place to be for a 5-star luxury scam vacation.

 

[DeadCactus]

These Med Board Execs Make Triple a Practicing Doc's Salary

Infographic shows highest compensation, widest gaps for ABMS member boards

www.medpagetoday.com

"The analysis found that for the 19 boards with complete data on both executive and physician pay, 12 of those executives made more than the median specialist salary.

Some of the widest gaps in compensation were seen for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)."


Don't worry, EM is not far behind.

 

[Janders]

I always look at this from two directions:
I have to take 4x MyEMCert modules this year at $350/each. I just did my 3rd in 25minutes or so, with a bathroom break. So a little steeply priced, considering the effort / time required. Granted, after the transition, we reportedly need to pay $280/yr for continued tests and certification, and that price seems... reasonable?

Until I see what they are doing with the money I give them. Have a nice team dinner and spend $20,000? Sure maybe. Have a resort vacation all included to Hawaii and blow hundreds of thousands? I’m not terribly interested in paying for that...

 

[Old_Mil]

Our ED SDG has a lot of ED docs in admin roles in the hospital system

I asked one of them a while ago about making a new board for credentialing purposes.

My idea involved basically just making a shell of a organization that would have applicants over zoom share their screen and log into their ABEM account to verify they passed their written exam.

Once we see that we grant lifetime certification.

It isn't getting much traction yet but I keep pushing. As a recent recipient (the most recent, actually) of diplomate status following the virtually useful virtual oral exam, I do think the entire organization needs to be booted. I feel zero pride whatsoever in board certification especially seeing the myriad of pointless MOC BS.

I'll keep pushing them. I want to make it happen.

That already exists.

National Board of Physicians and Surgeons

 

[d2305]

If you want to get away from everything, Lani is the island for you. It's kind of pricy though.