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Complete your MOC requirements by 12/31/24 to avoid a change in certification status Expand/Collapse the ABIM alert.

Sign in to your Physician Portal to view any remaining requirements for the year. Not completing these requirements by 12/31/24 could result in a change to “Not Certified” for one or more certificates.

ABIM will be closing at 5:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, 12/12/24 Expand/Collapse the ABIM alert.

Our offices will re-open on Friday, 12/13/24 at 8:30 a.m. ET. For your convenience, you may contact us by email at request@abim.org

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Verification of Credentials

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  • Candidates for certification and Maintenance of Certification must possess a valid, unrestricted and unchallenged medical license in the United States, its territories or Canada.
  • Candidates practicing exclusively abroad and who do not hold a U.S. or Canadian license, must hold a license where they practice and provide documentation from the relevant licensing authority that their license is in good standing and without conditions or restrictions.
  • A candidate whose license has been restricted, suspended, revoked or surrendered in any jurisdiction, cannot be certified, recertified or admitted to a certification examination. Restrictions include but are not limited to conditions, contingencies, probation and stipulated agreements.

Substance Abuse

If a candidate or an ABIM Board Certified physician has a history of substance abuse, documentation of at least one year of continuous sobriety from a reliable monitoring source must be submitted to ABIM for admission to an examination or to receive a certificate. ABIM treats such information as confidential.