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Board Certification and Maintaining Certification

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There are three pathways to board certification in emergency medicine. Most EM physicians are certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Board certification is not required to practice medicine and is optional. The public has a favorable view of board certification and maintenance of certification.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Chaiya Laoteppitaks

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Laoteppitaks, C. (2023). Board Certification and Maintaining Certification. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_91

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