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Hospice and Palliative Medicine One-Day Exam

ABFM has partnered with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to offer the one-day exam for Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Application Information

To participate in the one-day exam, you must complete an application to be reviewed and approved by ABFM. The online application can be accessed in your MyABFM Portfolio during the open application period. Click here to review important application deadlines.

ABFM provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). More information regarding accommodations can be found in the Candidate Information Booklet.

Candidate Information Booklet

To assist you with the Hospice and Palliative Medicine application and results process, ABFM provides you with a Candidate Information Booklet that includes a comprehensive description of our requirements and policies. We recommend you read this thoroughly before beginning the application process.

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Test Center Selection

Once you have completed all application requirements, ABFM will notify the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) of your approved application and eligibility. ABIM will contact you after application approval with information on selecting a test center. You may schedule an appointment online with ABIM’s testing vendor, Pearson VUE. Exam appointments are available on a first come, first served basis.

Exam Content

The Hospice and Palliative Medicine exam is developed in conjunction with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and eight other ABMS member boards.

For more information about content included on the Hospice and Palliative Medicine exam, please visit the ABIM Website.

Rescore – ABFM offers the opportunity to have your exam rescored by sending a completed CAQ Rescore Request form and associated payment $250 within 14 days of the official release of the score reports. However, we strongly discourage this because the probability of an examination being incorrectly scored is extremely remote. In fact, we have no record of a discrepancy ever being detected. This is because ABFM employs many quality control procedures to ensure that all examinations are scored accurately. The quality control process is very extensive and is largely the reason that it takes so long to provide candidates with their final results.

If you decide to have your examination reviewed, please understand that the review is limited to verifying (1) that the responses that were scored were indeed made by the candidate and (2) that the scoring process correctly transformed the candidate’s responses into a scaled score.

This review is not a review of the content of the items, or a reconsideration of what the correct answer should be. It is also not a reconsideration of the passing standard or of the acceptability of the testing conditions.

If you wish to request a rescore of your examination, please complete the document below and send it with a check to ABFM.

CAQ RESCORE REQUEST FORM

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Important Dates

View important dates and upcoming deadlines for the one-day exam and longitudinal assessment.