TY - JOUR
T1 - A Clinical Informatics Program Directors' Proposal to the American Board of Preventive Medicine
AU - Pageler, Natalie M.
AU - Elkin, Peter L.
AU - Kannry, Joseph
AU - Leu, Michael G.
AU - Levy, Bruce
AU - Lehmann, Christoph U.
N1 - Funding Information:
C.U.L. reports support from the International Medical Informatics Association, Thieme, and Springer, outside the submitted work. M.G.L. reports working with a workgroup of program directors to define the requirements for the match, and to create an algorithm to implement the match. He intends to “donate” the algorithm to the host organization and not to profit from this algorithm. The other authors have nothing to report.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Georg Thieme Verlag. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - In 2013, the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) offered the first board certification examination in Clinical Informatics to eligible physicians in the United States. In 2022, the Practice Pathway will expire and in 2023 only candidates eligible through the Fellowship Pathway will be eligible for the board certification. To date, Clinical Informatics as a specialty has not had a regular match process and used a controlled offer-acceptance process that does not meet candidates' or programs' needs. Fellows may not be offered a position with their top choice program initially, and they may accept offers from other programs to avoid risk by ensuring that they have a fellowship position. Programs have to consider losing an applicant in the first round in the ranking of applicants. The process is open to manipulation including early agreements between program directors and candidates. In this open letter to the ABPM, program directors make the case for a third-party match and are calling on the ABPM to leverage its status as the Clinical Informatics certifying body and its existing infrastructure to implement a Clinical Informatics match.
AB - In 2013, the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) offered the first board certification examination in Clinical Informatics to eligible physicians in the United States. In 2022, the Practice Pathway will expire and in 2023 only candidates eligible through the Fellowship Pathway will be eligible for the board certification. To date, Clinical Informatics as a specialty has not had a regular match process and used a controlled offer-acceptance process that does not meet candidates' or programs' needs. Fellows may not be offered a position with their top choice program initially, and they may accept offers from other programs to avoid risk by ensuring that they have a fellowship position. Programs have to consider losing an applicant in the first round in the ranking of applicants. The process is open to manipulation including early agreements between program directors and candidates. In this open letter to the ABPM, program directors make the case for a third-party match and are calling on the ABPM to leverage its status as the Clinical Informatics certifying body and its existing infrastructure to implement a Clinical Informatics match.
KW - Clinical Informatics Fellowship
KW - accreditation and licensure
KW - clinical informatics
KW - education
KW - general healthcare providers
KW - health care
KW - physician
KW - professional training
KW - training and education requirements
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U2 - 10.1055/s-0040-1714348
DO - 10.1055/s-0040-1714348
M3 - Article
C2 - 32668481
AN - SCOPUS:85088094526
SN - 1869-0327
VL - 11
SP - 483
EP - 486
JO - Applied Clinical Informatics
JF - Applied Clinical Informatics
IS - 3
ER -