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ABFM Suspension Letter

I received yet another letter, from yet another governing body, that my status as a physician was suspended. This time it was a retroactive suspension by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). And once again, I was told by a governing body that they had a hard time reaching me. They made 1 attempt […]

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NBPAS Board Certification Update

A little over a year ago I decided that I wasn’t going to renew my ABMS Family Medicine board certification. I was worried whether I could land a job as a physician without that certification. Fortunately, I haven’t had any trouble at all after switching from ABMS to NBPAS. In fact, it’s one of the […]

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ABMS Scandal, Board Certification Alternatives

I come across some interesting facts from time to time and wrote recently about the ABMS’s terrible monopoly in the board certification process of physicians. Apparently, I’m not the only one who has noticed the ABMS scandal but there seems to be some uproar that a non-profit organization somehow managed to have $24,000,000 in surplus. […]