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). …

By Ben Babcock When the ABR administers Initial Certification exams, some people pass and others don’t. How does the ABR decide where to draw the line between a passing and failing performance? The answer is a psychometric process called standard setting. ABR Initial Certification exams use a criterion-referenced standard setting process (Angoff) that involves a…