UPDATED March 20, 2020
The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is carefully monitoring the situation regarding COVID-19 and will post ongoing updates to the ABPM website. We recommend reviewing the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the latest updates along with additional information regarding COVID-19.
The ABPM’s Public Health & General Preventive Medicine leadership continues to examine and analyze all relevant datapoints and, along with the review of external expert recommendations regarding risk assessment, travel restrictions, and disease prevention, will make thoughtful and deliberate decisions regarding the upcoming application cycle and testing administrations. As this situation evolves, we encourage our stakeholders to check our website regularly for updates.
Based on current information and modeling, the ABPM’s 2020 application cycle, which opened on Monday, March 16th, and the 2020 Initial Certification exam dates will proceed as scheduled.
Due to specialty society conference cancellations, the MOC exams scheduled for May 3 and May 14 have been cancelled and the MOC exam originally offered May 17 has been rescheduled for October 10. Currently, ABPM is planning to offer all other in-person and online MOC exams as scheduled. Please check the Initial Certification and MOC exam sections of the ABPM website for the latest updates.
As this situation evolves, the ABPM will continue to support physicians through their certification activities and provide comprehensive services through the online support center. Please continue to contact the ABPM via email at [email protected] for any questions related to your individual circumstances.