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The AOA has important information to share with you concerning the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) policy regarding the required program director attestation:
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA), seven osteopathic training program directors and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) have resolved the lawsuit regarding ABIM‘s requirement that clinical competence attestations come from ABIM-certified program directors.
ABIM will continue to accept attestations from current program directors of Single GME Accreditation System internal medicine residencies and fellowships who are not ABIM certified in 2022 and 2023, thus giving them two additional years to become certified by ABIM in their discipline.
Also, ABIM will waive its examination fee for one administration of its internal medicine certification examination and one administration on a subspecialty certification examination in 2022 or 2023 for any such program director.
Beginning in 2024, all clinical competence attestations must come from program directors who are ABIM certified in the discipline of their program.