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Expanded Blueprints

Expanded blueprints provide the most detailed content outline in a given specialty with topics and their approximate percentages for a typical assessment. 

Currently, ABIM offers expanded blueprints in some specialties and will continue to develop them for all remaining specialties.

Specialty Diplomate Blueprint Review Publish Blueprint Implement Blueprint
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Spring 2025 January 2026

July 2026 (Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment)

Fall 2026 (Certification and Traditional, 10-year MOC Exam)
Critical Care Medicine
Gastroenterology
Medical Oncology
Transplant Hepatology
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fall 2025 January 2027

July 2027 (Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment)

Fall 2027 (Certification and Traditional, 10-year MOC Exam)
Interventional Cardiology
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine: Inpatient
Sleep Medicine
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fall 2026 January 2028

July 2028 (Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment)

Fall 2028 (Certification and Traditional, 10-year MOC Exam)
Endocrinology
Geriatric Medicine
Infectious Disease
Pulmonary Disease
Cardiology Fall 2027 January 2029

July 2029 (Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment)

Fall 2029 (Certification and Traditional, 10-year MOC Exam)
Hematology
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Nephrology
Rheumatology

Certification Exam Blueprints

MOC Assessment Blueprints