With more than 1,300 volunteers on its dozens of committees, the ABR is fortunate to have subject matter experts who are eager to share their knowledge and limited spare time to keep board certification fair and relevant.  Volunteers from smaller subspecialties can be hard to find. That’s what makes physicians like Caitlin Connolly, MD, especially…

Residents and early career physicians and physicists have a week left to apply for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Visiting Scholars Program. The ABR partners with the ABMS to assist successful applicants with their research efforts and leadership development. A one-year, part-time program, Visiting Scholars facilitates projects that address pressing health care issues and research…

The ABR employs four experts from their fields to serve as extensions of Executive Director Brent Wagner, MD, MBA. These associate executive directors (AEDs), all of whom work part-time at the ABR, come from the four specialties that the organization certifies: diagnostic radiology (DR), interventional radiology/diagnostic radiology (IR/DR), medical physics (MP), and radiation oncology (RO). …