American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation

Abms ref is responsible for the abms visiting scholars program (vsp). Vsp is for early career physicians and others with relevant health care research-related degrees. Vsp scholars are introduced to the fields of physician professional assessment and continuing professional development, quality improvement, health care policy and regulation, and health services Research. Vsp scholars conduct Research in collaboration with mentors from their institutions, abms and abms' member boards. Through their Research and program engagement, vsp scholars inform the study of continuing professional development, physician assessment, self-regulation and quality improvement.

Abms ref synergizes, guides, convenes, facilitates, conducts and collaborates in relation to all aspects of Research regarding abms initial and continuing certification across 24 member boards. Abms ref also partners with other researchers to develop Research in the areas of quality and performance improvement, patient safety, adult learning and Education, and other disciplines. Abms ref conducts program evaluation and Research on the abms longitudinal assessment programs to analyze physician knowledge, judgement and skills.

Abms ref develops, deploys, maintains and improves an online repository of published literature and other presentations on initial physician specialty certification, continuing physician specialty certification, or components of continuous certification such as knowledge assessment, adult learning and Education and quality improvement. This curated repository informs researchers, key stakeholders and abms member boards regarding findings that can be used to improve the certification process.

Abms ref conducts program evaluation and Research on the abms longitudinal programs to assess physician knowledge, judgement and skills.