May 27, 2022

My Experience as a Frontline Physician in NYC During the Height of the Pandemic

Eric Wei, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals, is one of the heroes you heard about during the COVID-19 pandemic. As an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Wei experienced the pandemic on the front line as he worked shifts in the New York City public hospital system emergency […]

Celebrating Physicians

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

May 11, 2021

Standing in Solidarity with India: ABIM and the ABIM Foundation Send Contribution for Oxygen Infrastructure to India

Drs. Rajeev Jain, MD and Vineet Arora, MD, MPH are members of ABIM’s Board of Directors. Dr. Jain is a board certified gastroenterologist who has been in private practice in Dallas, Texas since 1999. He is a partner at Texas Digestive Disease Consultants and serves as Chief of Gastroenterology at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in […]

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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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April 6, 2021

ABIM Quarterly News & Notes | Spring 2021

In this issue: A Message from Richard Baron, ABIM President and CEO Introducing the Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment FAQ on MOC extension Meet ABIM’s Exam Experience Team Research Roundup A Message from Richard Baron, MD, ABIM President and CEO Colleagues, As I hope you have already heard, last month ABIM announced that it extended MOC requirement deadlines […]

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February 9, 2021

Thank you for Posting Why You Got Vaccinated

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Scharles Konadu Bissah (@drkonadu) When the pandemic began, ABIM Gastroenterology Board member Dr. Scharles Konadu didn’t think she would see many COVID-19 patients. Then “the calls came in for feeding tubes,” for patients who had recovered from the virus, but suffered brain damage afterward, she […]

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December 15, 2020

Board Certified Doctors Can Lead By Example with the COVID-19 Vaccine

Vaccine skepticism in the general population and even among health care workers is not only alarming but, if enough people choose not to take the vaccine, it also threatens our ability to bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end. As board certified physicians, your choice to be immunized or not will have an impact on […]

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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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August 25, 2020

ABIM Quarterly News & Notes | Summer 2020

We know how busy you are. That’s why we’ve created this new quarterly newsletter to keep you informed about ABIM news, share insights from your fellow doctors and let you know about opportunities to get involved with ABIM. We hope you find it helpful, and thank you for all you do as an important member […]

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