Medical staff alert: ABPS' announcement of board certification ruffles feathers
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) recently announced the new American Board of Hospital Medicine, which offers board certification exclusively for inpatient specialists (a.k.a. hospitalists) for the first time ever, according to the Jan. 12 ABPS press release. Although this is welcome news for some, whether the healthcare industry as a whole will embrace this new board certification is up for debate. After that initial press release, the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) president Pat Cawley, MD, sent an e-mail notification to its members, stating SHM has no ties to ABPS.
“The Society of Hospital Medicine is in no way affiliated with the American Board of Physician Specialties and was not involved with the creation of the so-called American Board of Hospital Medicine,” said Crawley in the press release.