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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Looking at ABIM physicians, 11,374 physicians have been certified in geriatric medicine since it was first offered in 1988, with 4,740 currently maintaining a valid certification.

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Rheumatology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. In 2024, 82% of ABIM Board Certified rheumatologists due for an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam.

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Practice tip of the week: Be an on-time physician

Physician's Practice

This April 2024 article by Neil Baum, MD , on being an on-time physician gives this tip: Instruct new patients to arrive 20-30 minutes before their appointment to fill out paperwork or complete the paperwork online if your website provides the forms for patient demographics and a health care questionnaire.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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Nephrology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. One notable trend was a higher representation of international medical graduates and osteopathic physicians in the specialty. Additionally, participation in LKA remains a leading choice.

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Infectious Disease Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. A small number of infectious disease physicians are dual-certified, meaning they maintain an additional certification—the largest number (208) in critical care medicine.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

He died in 2024. So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive.