Pediatric hospital medicine certification moving forward
AT PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL MEDICINE 2013
Audience member Dr. Gail McGuinness, ABP executive vice president, said that experts in hospital medicine joined the ABP in setting the minimal criteria to sit for the boards.
"The goal with early certification is really to be inclusive and not prevent people from gaining certification, recognizing the training in the future is going to be somewhat different from the training, or lack of training, that those of you who are practicing the subspecialty now have," she said.
That said, Dr. McGuiness observed that "a new certificate has to say something to the public that everyone who holds that certificate has had the same experiences and same standardized training" and suggested that individuals who feel they have deficits in procedural areas need to address those deficits.
Once the fellowship accreditation process goes online, then only ACGME-approved fellowships will be able to have their graduates sit for the exam. Hospitalists who take the PHM subspecialty board, however, do not need to maintain board certification in general pediatrics once PHM certification is attained.
The meeting was sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association. The panel reported having no financial disclosures.
