Focus on IR/DR: Initial Certification Advisory Committee Provides Valuable Feedback
By ABR Associate Executive Director for Interventional Radiology James B. Spies, MD, MPH
December 2025;18(6):5
The best way to determine how you’re doing as an organization is simple: Consistently engage with stakeholders. They will let you know, and you will benefit from the process.
It’s the template the ABR uses with its advisory committees. Whether the subject is Initial or Continuing Certification, physicians and physicists who are participating in the programs are excellent at providing feedback.
I have the pleasure of serving as chair of the Interventional Radiology Initial Certification Advisory Committee (IR ICAC), a group that includes candidates and diplomates. Their charge, as is the case with similar committees representing the other three specialties the ABR certifies, is to give and receive information about our organization’s exam processes. They then share what they have learned with their colleagues.
In the following video, members of the IR ICAC give their thoughts about being part of the group. We appreciate their willingness to volunteer to help improve the Initial Certification process.
