ABIM Governance consists of more than 330 members on more than 50 boards and committees, and includes physicians, inter-professional health care team members and public members representing the patient communities they serve.
While the majority of ABIM Governance members are practicing physicians certified by ABIM, the inclusion of expert non-physician members—patients, caregivers, and/or inter-professional health care team members—across ABIM's Board of Directors, Council, and Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees ensures a broader perspective is heard on what board certification should mean for the internal medicine community. This inclusion matters: a variety of stakeholders including patients, hospitals and health systems rely on the ABIM credential to tell them a physician is staying current. All ABIM exam content is created and reviewed by practicing physicians serving on Approval Committees and Item-Writing Task Forces, which do not have any non-physician members.