Core Competencies for Neurologists: What Clinicians Need to Know

Here's a cutting-edge look at the core competencies required in the practice and education of neurology. This comprehensive guide, written by the crediting organization, provides essential information to maintain professional certification, including the maintenance of certification, cognitive examination, documentation, and assessment of commitment to lifelong learning and practice-based performance. Readers will understand how continuing competence will be measured in order to become 'boarded' and re-certified.

• Discusses the recent paradigm shift in medical accreditation from a subject-centered curriculum to one based on demonstrated abilities.
• Describes the evolution of the core competencies established by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialists(ABMS).
• Details all of the neurology core competencies instituted by the ABPN within the areas of Patient Care · Medical Knowledge · Interpersonal and Communication Skills · Practice-Based Learning and Improvement · Professionalism · and Systems-Based Practice.
• Explains how both residency training and the recertification process will be influenced by the core competencies mandate.

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology