Certification

Testing Clinical Knowledge and Judgment

Downing S, Haladyna T, editors. Handbook of Test Development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2006.

Holmboe ES, Lipner RS, Greiner A. Assessing quality of care: knowledge matters. JAMA. 2008;299(3):338-40.

Papadakis MA, Arnold GK, Blank LL, Holmboe ES, Lipner RS. Performance during internal medicine residency training and subsequent disciplinary action by state licensing boards. Ann Intern Med. 2008;148(11):869-76.

Certification is Associated with Better Care

Reid RO, Friedberg MW, Adams JL, McGlynn EA, Mehrotra A. Associations between physician characteristics and quality of care. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170(16):1442-9.

Norcini JJ, Kimball HR, Lipner RS. Certification and specialization: do they matter in the outcome of acute myocardial infarction? Acad Med. 2000;75(12):1193-8.

Prystowsky JB, Bordage G, Feinglass JM. Patient outcomes for segmental colon resection according to surgeon's training, certification, and experience. Surgery. 2002;132(4):663-70.

Holmboe ES, Wang Y, Meehan TP, Tate JP, Ho SY, Starkey KS, Lipner RS. Association between maintenance of certification examination scores and quality of care for medicare beneficiaries. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168(13):1396-1403.

Pham HH, Schrag D, Hargraves JL, Bach PB. Delivery of preventive services to older adults by primary care physicians. JAMA. 2005;294(4):473-81.

Turchin A, Shubina M, Chodos AH, Einbinder JS, Pendergrass ML. Effect of board certification on antihypertensive treatment intensification in patients with diabetes mellitus. Circulation. 2008;117(5):623-8.

Hess BJ, Weng W, Holmboe ES, Lipner RS. The association between physicians' cognitive skills and quality of diabetes care. Acad Med. 2012;87(2):157-63.

The Public Expects It

Brennan TA, Horwitz RI, Duffy FD, Cassel CK, Goode LD, Lipner RS. The role of physician specialty board certification status in the quality movement. JAMA. 2004;292(9):1038-43.

American Board of Medical Specialties. Facts About the 2008 ABMS Consumer Survey: How Americans Choose Their Doctors (pdf). ABMS. 2010.