NC Medical Board Denies AAPS Request for Board Certification Equivalency

[CAL/AAEM News Service]

NC Medical Board Denies AAPS Request for Board Certification Equivalency

Source: AAEM (http://www.aaem.org)
Date: July 22, 2006


The North Carolina Medical Board (NCMB) denied the request from the American Association
of Physician Specialists (AAPS)  to have their credential, ABPS/BCEM, to be recognized as
equivalent to ABMS/ABEM or AOA/AOBEM and accepted as evidence of emergency medicine
expertise for purposes of licensure.

After dealing with similar issues in Florida, AAEM contacted every single state medical
board requesting to be informed whenever EM board certification activity appears on their
agenda.  Upon AAEM's notification of the situation in North Carolina just three weeks
before the NCMB meeting, AAEM notified NC-ACEP and national EM organizations.  Howard
Blumstein, AAEM Secretary-Treasurer and NC emergency physician, testified at the NCMB
meeting joined by NC-ACEP representatives.  Opposition letters were also sent on behalf
of SAEM, ACEP, and influential EM leaders.

"This is a wonderful demonstration of the benefit of having a proactive approach to
problem solving, commitment to EM Board certification by ABEM and AOBEM, and
inter-organizational collaboration on such important issues," states Tom Scaletta,
president of AAEM.



Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

The CAL/AAEM Archives are available at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/calaaem/


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