ABMS Insights (12/01/23)

To help its Member Boards as they evaluate competency-based medical education (CBME), the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) created learning communities. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)–ABMS CBME Learning Community, convened in 2022, aims to further the development of and transition to CME in graduate medical education. Key to achieving this goal is acknowledging the role and importance of the five core components of CBME in GME, plus identifying the various factors — including policy, financial and administrative — that have helped to promote innovation in CBME and those that may have held it back. "Residency and fellowship training need to fit together hand-in-glove," added Greg Ogrinc, MD, MS, senior vice president of Certification Standards and Programs at ABMS. "The processes and oversight of residency and fellowship accreditation and physician and specialist certification are independent of one another, but they are related," he said.

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