Call for Sessions and Posters

The 2024 call for Abstracts has closed.

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) invites you to submit an education session (abstract) or poster abstract for live presentation at ABMS Conference 2024.

The ABMS Conference Call for Sessions and Posters is an excellent opportunity to share innovative collaborations, evidence-based research, and best practices that accelerate the transformation of certification and the delivery of high-quality care.

ABMS Conference 2024 will be held in-person from September 24–26, 2024 at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park.

TARGET AUDIENCES

ABMS Conference 2024 attracts a diverse community of more than 400 health care professionals, such as:

Acceptances notifications will be sent via email no later than Monday, May 13, 2024. 

Call for Sessions

The ABMS Conference 2024 program planning committee seeks high-quality submissions designed to meet the continuing professional development needs of the target audience(s); sessions may feature original research or encore presentations, and they may reflect evidence-based practices or be anecdotal in nature.

Abstracts should support one or more of the following conference domains (and sub-domains).

Domains

Abstracts should support one or more of the following conference domains (and sub-domains).

Demonstrates advancements and innovations in initial and continuing certification* programs

  • Data-driven strategies to support trainee and diplomate engagement, performance, and patient outcomes through certification programs.

  • Validity in assessment development, measurement, and outcomes

  • Member Boards' Commitment to continuous quality improvement of initial and continuing certification programs

    • Outcomes and improvements to Initial Certification Pathways

    • Outcomes and improvements to Continuing Certification Programs (LAP's, etc.)

  • Research and data collaborations to inform future assessment and certification program requirements

*Continuing certification is also known as Maintenance of Certification or MOC

Identifies standards for assessing and promoting professionalism through certification programs

  • Formative professionalism assessments through peer-review, 360-feedback strategies, personal reflection, or other modalities

  • Support trainees' and diplomates' ability to remediate identified deficits (professionalism or performance) within a certification cycle

  • Identifies new behaviors and skills for Member Boards to assess professionalism: 

    • Care coordination

    • Communication 

    • Team-based care

    • Patient and Family Experience of Care

Demonstrates certification's impact on health equity, national quality priorities*, and physician well-being

  • Demonstrates collaborative solutions to improving physician well-being

  • Demonstrates equity in certification assessments and transparency in assessment outcomes

  • Identifies best practices for mitigating bias and health care disparities through specialty certification assessments and programs

  • Integrates national quality priorities within the certification framework

*National quality priorities as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 

Accelerates the adoption of competency-based education (CBE) and assessments (GME, initial and continuing certification), especially in the clinical education or practice environment

  • Demonstrates the impact of localized assessments on national certification programs and outcomes

  • Identifies best practices to support the progression of the CBE framework into certification practices through research collaborations, simulations, administration, data exchanges, etc. 

  • Advances research to support the integration of CBE and workplace-based assessments to inform clinical judgment, reasoning, skills, and performance

Demonstrates collaborative strategies, especially with professional societies, health care systems, and CME providers, to develop lifelong learning and quality improvement interventions within and across specialties to improve health and health care (IHHC)

  • Demonstrates partnerships between Member Boards and professional societies for IHHC programs

  • Advances partnerships with patients and families to employ systematic efforts to improve the quality, safety, and value of health care through partnerships with patients, families, and communities

  • Optimizes the use of clinical data registries to develop measures and improve performance within and across specialties

  • Addresses quality, safety, and emerging specialty advancements through certification programs

  • Demonstrates how to engage physicians' intrinsic motivation to deliver high-value care such as through the ABMS Portfolio Program Sponsors

Demonstrates the rising impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on certification programs and health care delivery systems

  • Optimizes learning and improvement through AI.

  • Examines the impact of AI (threats and opportunities) on the development, administration and implementation of initial and continuous certification assessments and programs

  • Evaluates the impact and safety of large language models (LLM).

    • Supports research to demonstrate AI's impact on clinical reasoning, diagnostic accuracy, patient engagement and outcomes

    • Demonstrates AI capacity to impact patient engagement and clinical decision-making

  • Demonstrates use cases for large language models to improve physician well-being, e.g., use of AI Colleagues (AI scribes, patient messaging, literacy-based responses, etc.)

  • Research on appropriate use of AI that leads to development of effective regulatory and compliance guidelines in health care delivery and across the health care education continuum

Submissions should include, if available, citations and literature references to support the research and evidence of its impact on certification. Individuals and/or organizations are welcome to submit more than one abstract; each abstract must be submitted separately.

Acceptances notifications will be sent via email no later than Monday, May 13, 2024.

SESSION FORMATS

Theme-Based Oral Presentations (10–15 minutes)

The program planning committee will group three oral presentations together by themes. A maximum of one presenter per oral presentation and a facilitated Q&A session with the audience will comprise a 60-minute, theme-based oral presentation education session.

Instructive Education Sessions (60 minutes)

Instructive education sessions may include an interactive hands-on workshop, interactive panel discussions, or a single submission of a series of 15-minute, lecture-based presentations with immediate audience-feedback mechanisms. A maximum of three presenters and a facilitated Q&A session with the audience will comprise a 60-minute instructive education session.

Poster Presentations (3–5 minutes)

Live, interactive poster presentations will support scholarly research projects that advance certification’s impact on public health, quality and safety priorities, innovations in assessment, and collaborative certification solutions across health professions. A maximum of one poster presenter will participate in the live session (additional poster authors may be acknowledged in the poster, post-acceptance).

We look forward to your contribution(s) to this premier health care conference on board certification with a focus on assessment, lifelong learning, improvement, and professionalism.

Additional Questions? Contact callforsessions@abms.org.