Hospital Medicine, Focused Practice
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has created a new program that provides general internists practicing in the hospital setting the opportunity to maintain Internal Medicine Certification with a Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine. This program has been developed in response to the growing number of ABIM certified general internists who have dedicated themselves to caring for patients in a hospital setting.
The program assesses, sets standards for, and recognizes the specific knowledge, skills and attitudes of general internists who focus their practice in the care of hospitalized patients. ABIM's decision to create this program is consistent with its primary role of certifying internal medicine physicians who meet the profession's standards for focused practice in internal medicine.
The Hospitalist featured the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine MOC program in its May 2010 cover story. Read the story to find out what hospitalists think about the program.
