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The American Board of Internal Medicine has issued more than 425,000 initial certificates in internal medicine and its subspecialties in the United States and its territories since its founding. [19] From 2001 to 2013, American Board of Internal Medicine certified 91,024 physicians in general internal medicine. [19]
COMLEX-USA is the most common pathway by which osteopathic physicians apply for medical licensure, and is accepted in all 50 states. The 3-digit standard scores of COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2- Cognitive Evaluation (CE), and Level 3 have a range of 9-999 and a mean of 500.
The board is one of 18 medical specialty certifying boards of the American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), [1] and was established in 1942. As of December 2011, 3,072 osteopathic internal medical physicians held active certification with the AOBIM.
Physicians with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree are required to pass the USMLE for medical licensure. However, those with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree (DO) are required to take the COMLEX-USA (COMLEX) exams but may also sit for the USMLE as well. [10] [11] States may enact additional testing and/or licensing requirements. [12]
The commonly used acronym BE/BC (board eligible/board certified) refers to a doctor who is eligible or is certified to practice medicine in a particular field. The term board certified is also used in the nursing field, where a candidate with advanced mastery of a nursing specialty can also become eligible to be Board Certified. [2]
As of 2023, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine had trained 14,251 physicians, with 5,830 non-physician alumni. [23] Ethel D. Allen, Republican Party politician; Bo Bartlett, realist painter; Ronald R. Blanck, first osteopathic physician ever appointed Surgeon General of the US Army
The concept of a specialty board was first proposed in 1908 by Dr. Derrick T. Vail. In 1916, ophthalmology became the first officially incorporated board. [2] The second specialty board, the American Board of Otolaryngology, was founded and incorporated in 1924. [3]
The American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) is a medical association in the United States representing osteopathic physicians who specialize in internal medicine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The ACOI is one of two professional organizations representing internal medicine physicians in the United States, the other organization is the American College ...