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Passing your boards demonstrates that you have met rigorous standards and possess the clinical judgement, skills and attitudes essential for excellent patient care. You've worked hard to achieve board certification—let us help you share this news with your community!

Join an Item-Writing Task Force

Each year, hundreds of practicing physicians write thousands of questions (items) for ABIM’s Initial Certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) exams, and the Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA®). These items undergo a rigorous review and testing process to guarantee relevancy, fairness and up-to-date medical knowledge.

About the Item-Writing Task Force and Governance

Item-Writers are volunteer physicians who develop questions for assessments in each discipline of internal medicine through prototyping and modeling. The ABIM Approval Committees review all items and oversee the work of the Item-Writing Task Forces in their respective disciplines, offering mentorship, guidance and feedback to develop the most rigorous and relevant questions for assessments.

The ABIM Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees, which oversee the Approval Committees, are responsible for the broad definition of their disciplines across Initial Certification and MOC, and for ensuring that the assessments remain relevant in their specialties.

If you are interested in joining an Item-Writing Task Force or ABIM Governance, visit the openings page to learn more and apply for a position. 

"ABIM, like a number of organizations, has a wonderful and large platform and therefore the ability to really promote work surrounding health equity. Given ABIM’s focus on promoting the highest professional standards among internal medicine physicians, there’s an opportunity there, in the programming, to both educate diplomates about health disparities and to advocate for health equity."
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Deidre Crews, MD
Nephrology

"I have played an active role in the ABIM transformation process in the nephrology community by having conversations in local hospitals in Dallas-Fort Worth with physicians, at national society meetings (ABIM focus groups) and several exchanges on social media discussing challenges and opportunities with other members of the board certification community. I have had the honor of engaging with several ABIM staff with whom I have built great working relationships over the years. I did not realize how diverse ABIM Governance was!"
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Samir K. Nangia, MD
Nephrology

I joined ABIM Governance because "I wanted to contribute to my field and community of fellow physicians in a meaningful way. In addition, I wanted to provide a diverse perspective in hopes of changing the way things have been viewed for many years.”
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Scharles Konadu, MD
Gastroenterology

Being on the Item-Writing Task Force has "given me a greater appreciation for the test as a whole. And, I think it helps you to serve the community, meaning our medical community but also the general public, because you’re making sure that the doctors certified in your specialty are properly certified… I think it’s been really rewarding, and… I like the diversity of people that they’ve picked ..., meaning diversity of age, geographic region, gender, and ethnicity. So, I think there’s a very balanced perspective."
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Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc
Transplant Hepatology

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    June 28, 2021  |  This year has undeniably changed the way we do things: the way we stay connected to our friends and family, the way we interact with our patients, the way we stand up for one another.