ABMS Visiting Scholars Program

During the year-long program, the Visiting Scholars remain at their home institutions and work with self-selected mentors. They participate in monthly webinars where they provide research project updates to their peers, a select panel of subject matter experts, and Visiting Scholars alumni who provide guidance, support, and feedback to barriers they may be experiencing in their research work. Scholars traditionally attend in-person leadership meetings and present their research findings before a national audience at the annual ABMS Conference.

The one-year, part-time program supports research priorities of The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Research and Education Foundation:

• Diagnostic excellence within and across medical specialties. 
• Adoption of competency-based medical education and assessments across certification programs. 
• Impact of physician burnout on the health care continuum. 
• Impact of the clinician-patient relationship on behavioral changes and health outcomes. 
• Physicians' engagement and impact on multidisciplinary quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

The ABMS Visiting Scholars Program provides opportunities to: 

• Conduct research of value to their home institution and the larger certification community.
• Strengthen research methodologies, data analytics and overcome barriers in consultation with research mentors, scholar peers and alumni, ABMS leaders and subject matter experts. 
• Develop a robust professional network of national health care thought leaders, from specialty Member Boards, national thought leaders across the medical education curriculum, research mentors, peer and alumni scholars. 
• Engage with the ABMS Community through participation in ABMS Committee Meetings, Member Board. Executive Forums, ABMS Stakeholder Council Meetings, ABMS sponsored symposia and other professional forums. 
• Disseminate research nationally across the certification, medical education and quality improvement community.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)