Announcing openings on ABIM governance for 2025

ABIM is pleased to announce openings on the ABIM Council, Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees for initial three-year terms beginning July 1, 2025, with the option to renew once. Applications are due Monday, July 22, 2024.

ABIM governance provides a meaningful and rewarding opportunity to join outstanding professional colleagues in service to patients. Governance members help define the breadth of knowledge of board certified internists and subspecialists, provide perspectives on trends and scope of their discipline, and collaborate with peers to develop fair and relevant assessments.

Learn more about what the Council, Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees do.

While the majority of ABIM governance members are practicing physicians certified by ABIM, the inclusion of expert interprofessional health care team members, caregivers, and patients and patient advocates ensures a broader perspective is heard on what board certification should mean for the internal medicine community. This inclusion matters: a variety of stakeholders including patients, hospitals and health systems rely on the ABIM credential to tell them a physician is staying current.

Read more about how ABIM chooses members of governance.

If you have a genuine interest in professional development and standard setting for internal medicine and its subspecialties, please consider applying to one of the openings below. In addition to positions for physicians, these include several openings for patients/caregivers and health care team members. If you know a colleague or patient who would make a good candidate, consider referring them through the link below.

• ABIM Council
  • Early career physician
• • Physician practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Public member with patient/caregiver experience in internal medicine
• Cardiovascular Board
  • Adult congenital heart disease cardiologist
  • General cardiologist
• Critical Care Medicine Board
  • Public member with patient/caregiver experience in critical care medicine
• Gastroenterology Board
  • Gastroenterologist practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Health care team member with experience in gastroenterology
• Geriatric Medicine Board
  • Early career physician
• • Geriatrician practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Public member with patient/caregiver experience in geriatrics
• Hospice and Palliative Medicine Advisory Committee
  • Hospice and palliative medicine physician practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Public member with patient/caregiver experience in hospice
• Infectious Disease Board
  • Infectious disease physician
  • Public member with patient/caregiver experience in infectious disease
• Internal Medicine Board
  • Internal medicine physician who is an international medical graduate
  • Internal medicine physician practicing in primary care
• Medical Oncology Board
  • Medical oncologist (two openings)
  • Health care team member with experience in medical oncology
• Nephrology Board
  • Nephrologist practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Health care team member with experience in nephrology
• Pulmonary Disease Board
  • Pulmonologist practicing in a non-university/community setting
  • Early career pulmonologist
• Rheumatology Board
  • Rheumatologist practicing in an academic setting
• • Early career rheumatologist
  • Health care team member with experience in rheumatology
• Sleep Medicine Advisory Committee
  • Sleep medicine physician
  • Health care team member with experience in sleep medicine

ABIM strongly encourages candidates from groups underrepresented in medicine and all areas of the country to apply.

Additional information on the desired qualifications and expertise, as well as the time commitment and expectations, can be found in each opening. Candidates will be asked to provide a curriculum vitae/resume, a letter of support from a colleague and a personal statement of about 300 words.

Visit ABIM’s website for more information on governance and opportunities to join.