Learn about Practice Improvement Modules
PIMs are Web-based tools that enable physicians to conduct a confidential self-evaluation of the medical care that they provide. Each module offers an opportunity for physicians to review current clinical practice guidelines and their own practice. PIMs help physicians gain knowledge about their practices through self-evaluation, analysis and the development of a plan to target areas for improvement. To learn more about PIMs, view PIM demonstrations or choose a PIM on which to work.
ABIM has made our PIMs available to other ABMS boards for the purpose of allowing those boards to use our tools for their Maintenance of Certification programs. Other ABMS boards will need to work with ABIM to become a sponsoring board to make these tools available to their members.
Some sponsoring organizations are allowing their members to complete PIMs as a group. ABIM's Group PIMs allow physicians who work with patients in the same location to work as a group on a PIM. Please contact your sponsoring organization to find out if you are eligible to complete Group PIMs.
The following options are available to physicians sponsored by another organization to complete an ABIM PIM:
