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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Ruiz, MD, Chair, ABIM Geriatric Medicine Board The Geriatric Medicine Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 28, 2025. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Apply to the ABMS Visiting Scholars Program

ABIM

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is committed to enhancing the quality of health care by certifying internists and subspecialists who demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for excellent patient care.

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Celebrating Doctor’s Day

ABIM

On National Doctor’s Day, we celebrate the extraordinary work you and more than a quarter of a million ABIM Board Certified physicians do every day. McDonald, MD, MPH President and Chief Executive Officer, ABIM and the ABIM Foundation Professor of Medicine The post Celebrating Doctor’s Day first appeared on ABIM Blog.

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Join ABIM Governance: apply by July 20

ABIM

ABIM is pleased to announce openings on the Board of Directors , ABIM Council and several Specialty Boards for initial three-year terms beginning July 1, 2026. Learn more about what the Council and Specialty Boards do. Applications are due Sunday, July 20, 2025. RN, APRN, PA, NP, Pharm.D., licensed social worker, etc.)

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News & Notes: Spring 2025

ABIM

The recommendations are given to the Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees in their respective disciplines for further review, discussion and development of the blueprint survey that ABIM sends to board certified physicians. Dozens more board certified physicians collaborate with ABIM to provide feedback.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

to 6.7% , and less than 2% of board-certified family physicians report performing colonoscopy in their practices. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

With only board-certified critical care clinicians seeing patients, Leapfrog Group ratings improve, and the efficient care we provide saves on costs and boosts patient experience scores in the ICUs we manage. If you want to learn more about what Sound Critical Care can do for your hospital, explore our program overview here.