Improvement in Medical Practice

What ABEM requires

Complete two patient care practice improvement activities and attest to them, one in the first 5 years of your 10-year certification cycle and one in the second.

ABEM is the authority on how to complete IMP. It’s easy to find out what you need to do.

• Read the requirements on the ABEM IMP webpage, or
• Log in to your ABEM Personal Page, or
• Call 517-332-4800.

How ACEP can help you meet these requirements

• We’ve developed four online activities that ABEM has approved for the IMP component:
  • Pediatric Readiness of Emergency Departments
  • Imaging in Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Palliative Care in the Emergency Department
  • New Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder
• Physicians certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine may satisfy one current Improvement in Medical Practice requirement by completing this activity.
• These activities are approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ACEP Category I credits.
• You can also reach out to ACEP’s CEDR team to explore ways they can assist you with easily fulfilling these requirements. For more information, review this article from ACEP Now.