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The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is a non-profit, self-appointed physician evaluation organization which certifies physicians who practice internal medicine and its subspecialties. It is not a membership society, educational institution or licensing body, but an organization that attempts to assess physicians through proprietary testing and completion of required modules. ABIM has issued more than 425,000 initial certificates in internal medicine and its subspecialties in the United States and its territories since its founding.〔ABIM. Number of candidates certified. Feb. 11, 2014. http://www.abim.org/pdf/data-candidates-certified/Number-Certified-Annually.pdf〕 From 2001 until 2013, ABIM certified 91,024 physicians in general internal medicine.〔ABIM. Number of candidates certified. Feb. 11, 2014. http://www.abim.org/pdf/data-candidates-certified/Number-Certified-Annually.pdf〕 From 2001-2013 ABIM certified more than 10,000 cardiologists and more than 6,400 medical oncologists.〔ABIM. Number of candidates certified. Feb. 11, 2014. http://www.abim.org/pdf/data-candidates-certified/Number-Certified-Annually.pdf〕 More than 140,000 physicians – including more than 8,000 physicians holding certifications that hold certifications which are valid indefinitely — are currently enrolled in ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification program. The current president and CEO of ABIM is Richard J. Baron. The ABIM recently adopted a new governance structure that now consists of three entities: * Board of Directors * ABIM Council * Specialty Boards ==History== ABIM, the largest of 24 member certifying boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties, was established in 1936 by the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians to issue certification to physicians. Since that time, ABIM has categorized physicians into one or more of its 20 subspecialties based on training and the passing of a standardized exam: *Adolescent Medicine *Adult Congenital Heart Disease *Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology *Cardiovascular Disease *Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology *Intensive care medicine *Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism *Gastroenterology *Geriatric Medicine *Hematology *Hospice & Palliative Care *Hospital Medicine *Infectious Disease *Interventional Cardiology *Medical Oncology *Nephrology *Pulmonary Disease *Rheumatology *Sleep Medicine *Transplant Hepatology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Board of Internal Medicine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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