What is Board Certification?
More than a framed document on an office wall, board certification signifies that your physician has met important educational, evaluation and examination requirements. What’s more, it demonstrates a commitment to ongoing medical education. All the physicians and sports medicine doctors at St. Croix Orthopaedics are either board certified or board eligible for certification by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS).
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO OUR PRACTICE? Triad Medicine and Pediatric Associates, PLLC takes its role as a quality medical provider of care to you, your child, and members of our community in general, with extreme seriousness. Our obligation is to provide evidence-based, up-to-date, compassionate care of the highest quality available to anyone in the US. To attain this goal, we require ALL of our medical providers to be and maintain board certification by their specialty medical board. Such recognition requires each provider to be extremely committed to continuing education within their field of specialty. All “medical boards” recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association require their members to have completed a “residency” program of training (at least 3 years after medical school), be knowledgeable of current medical standards and maintain the highest standards of ethics.
The intent of the certification of physicians is to provide assurance to the public that a physician specialist has successfully completed an approved educational program and evaluation process which includes an examination designed to assess the knowledge, skills, and experience required to provide quality patient care in that specialty.
Certification by the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO) is a voluntary process, and is the last step in a long and intensive educational experience designed to assure quality eye care for the American people. Certification is granted to ophthalmologists who successfully complete an accredited course of education in ophthalmology and an evaluation including an examination. The evaluation is designed to assess the knowledge, experience and skills requisite to the delivery of high standards of patient care in ophthalmology.
The Board Certification process includes the following components: • Education • Must have graduated from an approved medical school. • Must have completed an ACGME accredited urology residency program which is a minimum of five years in length. Twelve months must be spent in general surgery and 36 months must be spent in clinical urology; of the remaining 12 months, a minimum of six months must be spent in general surgery, urology, or other clinical discipline relevant to urology. The final 12 months of training must be spent as a senior/chief resident in urology with appropriate clinical responsibility under supervision. • The entering urological resident who has completed a general surgery program has developed the intensive and critical care skills which are so important to the appropriate management of the urologic patient. • Examinations After satisfactory completion of graduate education, surgeons may apply for certification by the ABU. Applicants approved by the Board to enter
