New! Health Care Administration, Leadership and Management CAQ Available October 2024

ABFM is a co-sponsoring board of the new subspecialty certification in Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management (HALM). This new Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ), with a 5-year continuing certification cycle, is currently in development and the first qualifying exam will be offered in November 2024.

The HALM CAQ will recognize physicians with significant leadership responsibility in a variety of settings including health systems, large medical groups, community practices, academic health centers, and health policy organizations. It will allow physician leaders to:

• Tailor their continuing family medicine certification to their current job responsibilities
• Provide a pathway to prepare up and comping organizational leaders for expanded leadership roles
• Provide portability of a leadership credential to different systems and settings

For the first seven years of the certificate, a “practice-only” pathway will be available to physicians with at least 36 months of verifiable leadership and management job experience. Family physicians with MBAs, MHAs, fellowship in the American College of Physician Executives or the American Academy of Physician Leadership, or training in certain longitudinal health system leadership programs may be eligible to take the HALM examination after 24 months of verifiable leadership and management job experience. In the future, graduates of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) fellowships will also be eligible to take the examination.

As with all CAQs, family physicians are required to maintain their family medicine certification and many HALM CAQ activities will count towards certification requirements.

More information about the HALM CAQ will be provided in the coming months.