(1) ABIM pass rates were estimated accurately and viewed as appropriate.
(2) This study describes a cohort of foreign medical school graduates (FMGs) who first sat for the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) 1982 certifying examination, compares their performance with that of US medical school graduates, describes differences between US citizen FMGs and alien FMGs, and examines which background factors predict success on the ABIM examination.
(3) The period of training should not be less than one year in addition to the period of cardiology fellowship required by the ABIM for board eligibility.
(4) Ratings of clinical skills by professional associates were significantly higher for certified internists and also correlated highly with ABIM examination scores (r = 0.53 to 0.59).
(5) Data for this study were derived by combining information retained by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates with ABIM data.
(6) To determine the predictive validity of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certification process.
(7) Foreign medical school graduates who did well on the ABIM examination had done well on the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates examination and were rated highly by their residency program director.
(8) Physicians certified by the ABIM had significantly higher scores on the written examination than the noncertified physicians, and scores on our examination correlated highly with the ABIM certification examination (r = 0.73).
(9) Most FMGs who took the 1982 ABIM certifying examination for the first time were educated in and citizens of Asia, but a sizable minority were US citizens educated in Europe.
(10) The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has charged directors of residency programs with evaluating "humanistic attributes" in residents seeking certification.
(11) The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has asked that directors of medical oncology training programs establish systems to evaluate, document, and substantiate the clinical competence of subspecialty trainees who seek certification.
(12) On 26 October 1974, 3356 diplomates of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) took a 1-day written examination for recertification consisting of multiple-choice, matching, and true-false questions derived from the American College of Physicians' Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program III and the ABIM Certifying Examination pool.
(13) These organizations include the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM), the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), The Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Society of Internal Medicine (ASIM), and the Federated Council of Internal Medicine (FCIM).
(14) It was intended to recognize only a few outstanding internists, for the ABIM's founders believed that general practitioners should continue to deliver the vast majority of care.
(15) Participants were selected from among practicing internists in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania who had received ABIM certification 5 to 15 years previously.
(16) Prospective measurement of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of 185 ABIM-certified and 74 noncertified internists by a written examination; evaluation by professional associates; a patient questionnaire assessing satisfaction with care, physician's counseling role, and preventive care; and review of records of patients with common illnesses.
(17) Residents who had completed residency training and had been admitted to an American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certifying examination in 1982 or 1983 were tracked through the ABIM database for five years.
(18) All 1,381 ABIM-certified internist geriatricians in the four regions; 727 (52.6%) responded.
(19) The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has recently emphasized the development of humanistic skills in trainees.
(20) On April 22, 1988, the first Certifying Examination in Geriatric Medicine was administered jointly by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Family Practice to 4,282 diplomates (ABIM = 2,202; ABFP = 2,080).
Abyss
Definition:
(n.) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit.
(n.) Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
(n.) The center of an escutcheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
(2) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
(3) Updated at 7.42pm BST 7.19pm BST Summary Here's a summary of Obama's statement and Q&A: President Obama said that to avoid 'the abyss', Iraq must form a new, inclusive government.
(4) On Friday 10 June, five men charged with keeping Britain in the European Union gathered in a tiny, windowless office and stared into the abyss.
(5) One path, to be honest, leads to an economical abyss.
(6) Until May there had been hopes that Winehouse might have been finding her way back from the abyss.
(7) He also imagined himself sitting on a grassy knoll in Poland, a country he had never visited, surrounded by rolling hills as dawn broke over the roof of the world on 26 May to reveal not a bucolic scene but the reality of his position – perched over a white abyss.
(8) The Bethnal Green schoolgirls, however, appeared to vanish into the abyss after they landed in Turkey, never starring in propaganda videos or demonstrating what they were doing there.
(9) However, it is also home to pressure-preferring or barophilic bacteria, believed to be functionally dominant over shallow-water intruders at abyssal depths.
(10) He accused the Ukrainian authorities who took over after the fall of president Viktor Yanukovych of driving the country to the abyss.
(11) Nigeria has been poised over an abyss for a long time.
(12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(13) After millennia of crossing the oceans in ignorance of what lies beneath, there is no longer any part of the abyss beyond our reach if we can find the will to go there.
(14) The question for those Labour MPs and others who can see where all this is leading, and want to stop Labour heading over the abyss, is what to do about it and when.
(15) Europe took a small step back from the moral abyss today, but it needs to do much more to provide clarity and turn this momentum into lives saved at sea.” The summit was called at short notice in reaction to the deaths of an estimated 800 migrants off the coast of Libya last weekend, drowned when their fishing trawler capsized in the biggest single tragedy in two years of attempts to flee sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East for southern Europe .
(16) "There was also no place that was covering music in the way that if you follow sports you go to ESPN, or like CNN with news, but with music you were just thrown into the abyss.
(17) "There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over" ... "Amen" from the crowd, " ... and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair ... " " Yes, Lord."
(18) Methanopyrus kandleri is a novel abyssal methanogenic archaebacterium growing at 110 degrees C on H2 and CO2.
(19) When exhausted European leaders emerged from all-night negotiations in Brussels last month with a "comprehensive" plan to claw the euro back from the abyss, they could have had no inkling that, less than a fortnight later, it would have so comprehensively collapsed.
(20) Putin said Kiev was pulling the country into an “abyss”.