Physicians must attest to the completion of one Patient Care Practice Improvement (PI) Activity on their ABEM Portal during each 5-year certification cycle.
The Improvement in Medical Practice (IMP) requirement focuses on practice-based learning and improvement in areas like patient care, communication, and more. Activities typically must include the physician's own patients.
IMP activities must follow these steps:
- Measure ten or more patients with a specific condition or clinical situation
- Compare to standard
- Implement an improvement
- Re-measure
Requirements for Clinically Inactive Physicians
Clinically inactive physicians see fewer than 20 patients in a five-year span. In such case, the IMP requirement would be waived. If you wish to declare yourself clinically inactive, please contact the ABEM office.