January 9, 2023

Fall 2022 Critical Care Medicine Board Meeting Summary

The Critical Care Medicine Board held its fall meeting on Friday, October 28, 2022, which included a special joint session with the Pulmonary Disease Board. The agenda included updates for the Specialty Board on activity at ABIM and allowed for discussion of pressing issues in the field, including issues that affect both disciplines. The following […]

ABIM Governance, News

June 8, 2021

How physicians are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021

By Benjamin Chesluk PhD, ABIM Senior Researcher for Ethnographic Research | Assessment and Research and Bradley Gray PhD, ABIM Senior Health Services Researcher Previous blog posts have already described some of ABIM’s significant efforts to document physicians’ experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic – namely, the major national surveys of critical care physicians developed in collaboration with physician researchers from […]

News, Physician Feedback

April 19, 2021

“No end in sight”: What has changed for ICU physicians in the US over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic (so far)

By Benjamin Chesluk PhD, ABIM Senior Researcher for Ethnographic Research | Assessment and Research and Bradley Gray PhD, ABIM Senior Health Services Researcher The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has placed enormous pressures on ICU physicians and other health care providers in the US. They have had to learn to fight an unfamiliar and challenging new disease […]

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March 30, 2021

Today We Celebrate Our Heroes: Doctor’s Day 2021

Today we celebrate our heroes — board certified physicians who spend their days caring for others. It has been a year of unbelievable challenges and heart break, and you have stepped up and met those challenges with courage and conviction. Thank you for all you have done and continue to do for your patients. Leaders […]

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September 3, 2020

Critical Care Physicians Treating COVID-19 Report High Stress Levels

Researchers at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), Harvard Medical School and the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently published results of a survey conducted earlier this year aimed at better understanding the experiences of critical care physicians caring for COVID-19 patients across the United States. The survey, conducted 4/23/20 – […]

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December 12, 2019

Summary Report: Fall 2019 Critical Care Medicine Board Meeting

Meeting Highlights At our fall meeting, ABIM’s announcement regarding the development of a longitudinal assessment option for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) was a central focus. We also touched on a number of other key issues for ABIM and the critical care medicine community, and received important updates from ABIM leadership. The following is a report […]

ABIM Governance, Assessments for MOC, MOC, News, Physician Feedback

April 30, 2018

PODCAST: Burnout and Practicing Today’s Medicine

In this podcast, listen to Dr. Lorna Lynn—an internist and the vice president of medical education research at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)—discuss physician burnout with three members of ABIM’s Critical Care Medicine Board: Drs. Ruth Kleinpell, Laura Evans and Bruno DiGiovine. We know that doctors shoulder many responsibilities and a seemingly endless […]

Podcasts

May 30, 2017

Podcast: 30 Years of Advancing Critical Care Medicine

Dr. J. Christopher Farmer has been helping to advance the field of Critical Care Medicine from its inception 30 years ago as a recognized subspecialty certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Dr. Farmer has served in the U.S. Air Force, is engaged in a number of international projects to improve critical care, […]

ABIM Governance, Celebrating Physicians, Exam Committees, News