News 2006
| Date | News |
|---|---|
| December 12, 2006 | IHI Launches "Five Million Lives" Patient Safety Campaign (pdf) The Institute for Healthcare Improvement announced a national campaign to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.S. hospitals. |
| July 14, 2006 | ABIM Recognizes Added Qualifications as Subspecialties of Internal Medicine |
| July, 10, 2006 | The American College of Physicians (ACP) Professional Liability Program Offers Additional Credit to Internists Who Recertify. The American College of Physicians (ACP) and The Doctors Company announced a new program that will provide ACP members with a credit on medical liability insurance for Maintenance of Certification. Internists, both time-limited and time-unlimited diplomates, who complete or have already completed Maintenance of Certification will receive a 5 percent credit when they insure with The Doctors Company, the endorsed liability carrier for the ACP. This initiative is another example of how organizations are recognizing the value of Maintenance of Certification as a way for physicians to demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement of their knowledge and skills. Click here to see the ACP press release. (pdf) |
| June 1, 2006 | Internal Medicine Board Adds Practice Improvement Modules Eric Holmboe, MD, ABIM's Vice President for Quality and Evaluation Research, is interviewed by Physician's News Digest about ABIM's Comprehensive Care Practice Improvement Module. Click here to see the Physician's News article. (pdf) |
| May 2, 2006 | News Alert from ABMS Regarding Diplomate Certificate Renewal Solicitation. |
| March, 2006 | An article entitled "Physician Board Certification and the Care and Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction" appeared in the March 2006 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM 21: 238-244). The article examined the relationship between board certification, quality of care and outcomes using data from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project, a national cohort of elderly patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Conclusions showed that treatment by a board-certified physician was associated with higher quality of care for AMI. |
| March, 2006 | The March 2006 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings reported on patients' perspectives regarding "the ideal doctor." In an accompanying editorial (Mayo Clinic Proceedings March 2006; 81(3) 294-296), ABIM Director James Li, MD, PhD, addresses the need to include physician-patient relationships when measuring quality. |
| February 27, 2006 | The February 27, 2006 issue of The New York Times published a Letter to the Editor from Dr. Christine K. Cassel (pdf), president and CEO of ABIM, in response to the paper's February 22, 2006 article entitled "Why Doctors So Often Get it Wrong." The article stated that health care quality lapses include problems with misdiagnosis and undiagnosed illness—and that no effective program exists to evaluate diagnostic ability or reward physicians for this aspect of quality of care. |
| January 3, 2006 | The January 3, 2006 issue of The Annals of Internal Medicine reported the results of a survey of internists about their reasons for participating in Maintenance of Certification. |
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