Does anyone even work at ABEM anymore?

[funnybanana]

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What a joke of a board/committee/whatever they call themselves. Try and call or message and you get zero response. Phone line just goes to voicemail. What's going on?

 

[AlmostAnMD]

they didn't put starlink on the party yacht

wait till it docks

 

[RustedFox]

I actually got an email reply from them late last week.

 

[EthylMethylMan]

I’ve had decent success calling earlier in the day, like within a couple hours of them opening.

 

[EMdoc235]

It's worse than calling the IRS, if that's even possible.

 

[WhatJobDoIPick]

I used to defend ABEM and board certification but now my opinion is more "what's the point?". The noctors practice with next to nothing and replace physician FTEs more and more so like who cares?

 

[RustedFox]

I used to defend ABEM and board certification but now my opinion is more "what's the point?". The noctors practice with next to nothing and replace physician FTEs more and more so like who cares?

TRVTH NVKE

 

[emergentmd]

I have had a hard time login on to pay my dues. I guess they changed log in requirements this summer and I never received the promised activation email. From the sounds of things, this is a level of incompetence reserved for the USPS.

 

[Apollyon]

I have had a hard time login on to pay my dues. I guess they changed log in requirements this summer and I never received the promised activation email. From the sounds of things, this is a level of incompetence reserved for the USPS.

That's the ultimate thing: they make it difficult - for you to give THEM money!

 

[emergentmd]

Finally was able to get registered with the new ABEM. From what I am reading, is it true that the only path to recert is doing 4 modules for a 5 yr recert?

Is the 10 yr recert Concert exam not possible anymore?

 

[AlmostAnMD]

Correct. 10 year gone

 

[Brigade4Radiant]

I can't activate the modules that I paid for was hoping to get this stuff all done today

 

[Old_Mil]

NBPAS.

Just saying.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Best scam out there. Charge 50k docs a few hundred bucks and pay for no staff. #winning

 

[EctopicFetus]

NBPAS.

Just saying.

Issue is even fake ER doctors (I said what i said) can get this cert. Why bother when the standard is a joke.

 

[Old_Mil]

Issue is even fake ER doctors (I said what i said) can get this cert. Why bother when the standard is a joke.

Not sure how you're drawing that conclusion. It's an organization for qualified, self-directed, ABMS physicians who have gotten sick of the increasingly onerous and expensive top-down, one size fits all CME and testing requirements. Every doctor who is left alone to pursue the CME that is relevant to his or her specific practice and personally identified weak spots in knowledge is a better doctor than one who is held to a fixed standard decreed from on high.

NBPAS requires all physicians to meet the following criteria:​

1. Previous Certification Through an ABMS/AOA Member Board in the applied for specialty​

 

[JacobMcCandles]

These board certifications would mean something if they actually took away the licenses of a handful of physicians every year who couldn’t cut it.