Research grants totaling $550,000 awarded for General Certification
(funded by ABMS) and Diagnostic Excellence Through
Certification (funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation).
CHICAGO, June 25,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Medical
Specialties (ABMS) Research and Education Foundation (REF) has
announced the recipients of its inaugural research grants program.
Awarded in two categories, the two-year grants represent
$550,000 in funding and a significant
commitment to research by the ABMS REF.
"The ABMS REF is excited to announce our first-ever grant
recipients" stated Martin Pusic, MD,
PhD, Director, ABMS REF. "From the pool of initial Letter of Intent
proposals 19 were invited to submit full submissions. The selected
independent investigators' studies will focus on both effects of
board certification on patient care as well as on diagnostic
excellence as it intersects with initial and continuing
certification. The results of these studies are anticipated to help
the ABMS Member Boards further improve the quality of health care
through professional standards."
Recipients of the ABMS REF funded General Certification category
and their studies are:
- Arch Mainous, PhD, Professor, University
of Florida – "The Impact of Continuing Certification on
Quality of Patient Care"
- Brigitte Smith, MD, MHPE,
Associate Professor, University of
Wisconsin – "A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Relative
Merits of Different Oral Certifying Examination Formats"
- Daniel West, MD, Senior Director
of Medical Education and Professor (Penn School of Medicine),
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia – "A Multi-Site Implementation
and Effectiveness Study of a Protocol to Support Equitable
Competency-Based Advancement Decisions and Resident-Driven
Learning"
- Fasika Woreta, MD, MPH,
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye
Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine - Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Oral Board
Examiners of Surgical Specialties"
The second category, Diagnostic Excellence Through
Certification, is principally funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, and was established to support ABMS Member Boards and
the selected investigators' research into the specific area of
improving medical diagnosis. The recipients in this category
are:
- Laura Burke, MD, Assistant
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center/Harvard Medical School -
"Association Between Emergency Medicine Board Certification and
Diagnostic Error in Emergency Care: A National Analysis"
- Kiran Malhotra, MD, Clinical
Informatics Fellow, New York University
Langone Health – "Automated Mapping of Visit Diagnoses to Specialty
Board Clinical Domains for Enhanced Assessment, Certification, and
Precision Education"
- Ting Wang, PhD, Senior Psychometrician, American Board of
Family Medicine - "Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy and Calibration
via Automated Clone Item Generation and Personalized Feedback in
Longitudinal Assessment"
Following formal notice of their submission selection, grant
recipients' projects will begin on September
1, 2024, and continue for a two-year project period. Results
from these studies are anticipated to be presented at the ABMS
Conference 2026. The grant program is anticipated to be hosted
annually with the potential for a new cycle of requests for
proposals released later this fall.
About ABMS
Established in 1933, the American
Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is responsible for the creation
of standards overseeing physician certification in the United States. Dedicated to improving the
quality of care to the patients, families and communities they
serve, the 24 ABMS Member Boards develop educational and
professional standards and programs of assessment to certify
physicians and medical specialists. More than 985,000 physicians
and medical specialists are certified by one or more of the ABMS
Member Boards in one or more of 40 specialties and 89
subspecialties. For more information about ABMS, visit abms.org or
call (312) 436-2600.
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