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THE AMERICAN BOARD OF ANESTHESIOLOGY, INC.<br />
Member Board of the American Board of Medical Specialties<br />
The above certification mark is a registered certification mark of The American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc.<br />
BOOKLET OF INFORMATION<br />
Certification and Maintenance of Certification<br />
February 2012<br />
4208 Six Forks Road, Suite 900 Raleigh, North Carolina 27609-5735<br />
Phone: (866) 999-7501 | Fax: (866) 999-7503<br />
www.theABA.org<br />
Copyright 2012 by The American Board of Anesthesiology, Inc.<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
FORMER DIRECTORS .............................................................................................. 4<br />
OFFICERS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE STAFF ......................... 5<br />
1. GENERAL INFORMATION<br />
1.01 Introduction ............................................................................................. 6<br />
1.02 Purposes................<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=1"> THE AMERICAN BOARD OF ANESTHESIOLOGY, INC. Membe</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=2"> TABLE OF CONTENTS FORMER DIRECTORS ............</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=3"> TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued) 4. MAINTENANC</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=4"> FORMER DIRECTORS T. Drysdale Buchanan, M.D. ....</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=5"> THE AMERICAN BOARD OF ANESTHESIOLOGY, INC. </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=6"> GENERAL INFORMATION 1.01 INTRODUCTION The Amer</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=7"> (3) Monitoring and maintenance of normal physi</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=8"> Because of the nature of anesthesiology, the ABA </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=9"> 1.05 STATUS OF INDIVIDUALS The ABA reserves to </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=10"> The physician currently is not clinically acti</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=11"> PRIMARY CERTIFICATION IN ANESTHESIOLOGY 2.01 CE</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=12"> A person certified by the ABA is designated a dip</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=13"> subdisciplines include obstetric anesthesia, </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=14"> more than six months. The resident must be enroll</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=15"> consecutive periods of training that are not sati</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=16"> training program will teach continuity-of-car</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=17"> C. Provide evidence acceptable to the Board of h</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=18"> complete 12 consecutive months of additional clin</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=19"> 2.05 CERTIFICATE OF CLINICAL COMPETENCE The Boa</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=20"> I acknowledge that I have read a copy of the appl</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=21"> Subject to applicable state and federal law requi</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=22"> (2) Candidates who complete their registration be</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=23"> whether or not they accept the examination opport</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=24"> scenarios. The attributes are sound judgment in d</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=25"> acceptance of the examination opportunity or the </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=26"> K. ABA examinations are administered to all cand</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=27"> The above statements do not limit the Board’s abi</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=28"> ABA SUBSPECIALTY CERTIFICATION 3.01 ABA SUBSPEC</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=29"> multiple sources becomes manifest, and caregivers</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=30"> The ABA awards subspecialty certification only to</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=31"> A. Temporary Criteria for Critical Care Medicine,</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 32" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=32"> C. Temporary Criteria for Subspecialty Certificat</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=33"> applicant's medical licenses, the Credentials Com</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=34"> The Board, acting as a committee of the whole, re</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=35"> anesthesiologists. Such Information may be report</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 36" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=36"> documentation is not received by that date. It ul</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=37"> 3.09 REAPPLICATION The ABA declares void the ap</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=38"> MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION AND SUBSPECIA</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=39"> 4.02 MAINTENANCE OF CERTIFICATION IN ANESTHESIOL</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=40"> discovered not to have made disclosure may be sub</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=41"> CME sponsors may submit CME activities and credit</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 42" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=42"> These deadlines are absolute, and the ABA must ha</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=43"> Diplomates certified between January 1, 2001 and </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 44" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=44"> a. Diplomates certified in 2000, 2001, 2002, or 2</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=45"> Applicants must provide information about all the</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=46"> MOCA program. A copy of this release may accompan</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 47" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=47"> “Meeting MOCA Requirements” A diplomate is consid</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 48" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=48"> H. MOCA REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES WHOSE PRIMAR</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=49"> J. EXPIRED TIME-LIMITED CERTIFICATES (1) Time-l</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 50" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=50"> Educational activity requirements and application</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 51" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=51"> Although admission into the ABA subspecialty rece</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=52"> The ABA must receive all documentation required t</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=53"> D. REAPPLICATION To reapply for subspecialty re</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 54" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=54"> (3) The ABA will verify diplomates' clinical acti</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 55" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=55"> A former diplomate in anesthesiology has three ye</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 56" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=56"> BOARD POLICIES 5.01 ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 57" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=57"> D. The person certified shall fail to maintain a</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 58" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=58"> evaluation results, are retained until twelve mon</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=59"> 5.06 PROFESSIONAL STANDING Professional standin</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 60" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=60"> The ABA may require the applicant to do one or mo</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 61" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=61"> A. ALTERNATE ENTRY PATH International medical g</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 62" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=62"> C. PERIODIC EVALUATION REPORTS At 6-month inter</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 63" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=63"> competencies at six-month intervals and the </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 64" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=64"> practice requirement. The Board may, at its discr</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=65"> data transmissions are encrypted and stored in se</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 66" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=66"> EXAMINATION UNDER NONSTANDARD CONDITIONS The ABA </a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 67" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=67"> Documentation of the individual’s disability must</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 68" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=68"> The ABA reserves the right to require an individu</a>
<a title="2012-ABA-Booklet-of-Information page 69" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d5edd879?page=69"> FILING DEADLINES AND TEST DATES PRIMARY CER</a>