All physicians must have a medical license to work as a doctor. However, a board certified physician has also passed rigid assessments making him an expert in a particular medical field.
what is the difference between being board "eligible" and board "certified" ?
A board certified physician is usually referred to as "Doctor Whateveryourlastname." Board certification does not earn one another title, it is only a test of knowledge.
Internists are physicians trained and board certified in Internal Medicine. Primary care physician is a Physician who is primarily responsible for your medical care, he/she can be trained in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, for children this would be a pediatrician, women in reproductive age group may consider an Ob/Gyn to be their primary physician.
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A practicing doctor who is not board certified is still a licensed physician who has met a minimum set of requirements. Board certification means the doctor is highly specialized in a certain area of medicine.
Both are medical doctors, but the MD FACS is board-certified in surgery.
Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology; it indicates the the physician is board certified.
Physicians can take a special examination to become "certified" in an area of expertise... such as pediatrics, or internal medicine, etc. Certification must be renewed (via another examination) every several years. Not all physicians are board certified.
The suffix "ABFM" signifies that the physician is board-certified by the The American Board of Family Medicine. Board-certified physicians are also known as "Diplomates" of their respective specialty's certifying board. For example, "Dr. Robert Jones, M.D., ABFM" means that Dr. Jones is a diplomate or in other words is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. "Dr. William Smith, D.O., ACC" is a diplomate or is board-certified by the American College of Cardiology.
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No, he is not board certified in any specialties.