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Featured Item:
2009
Certification Examination
Applications are now available and may be
submitted at any time. The Application
deadline is November 28, 2008. Eligible
applicants must complete their training
program by July 31st, 2009. The examination
will be offered in August 2009, the exact
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What's New at the ABMG?
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EMOC Requirements for PhD Medical geneticists have changed, click here to view the changes (EMOC announcements)
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Registration for EMOC Part III examination scheduled for December 1-5, 2008 is now closed.
Registration will open later this year for the August 3-7, 2009 offering.
Click here for EMOC Part III general information including content outlines.
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ABMG’s current executive director, Dr. Karla Matteson, will be retiring at the end of 2009. Click here to view the job description and qualifications.
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The American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) has recently contacted the ABMG with information regarding their new plans for their certification examination. Based on the needs of their diplomates and their board, ABGC will be moving from a two exam format (general exam
and specialty exam) to a yearly all inclusive single exam format. As a result of this change, they will no longer be participating in the ABMG designed general examination. This change will have no impact on ABMG candidates as the grading of the general examination has
always been separate for ABGC and ABMG examinees.
The ABMG wishes the ABGC Board of Directors, their diplomates, and candidates the best in this new endeavor and look forward to continued interactions with the ABGC in our activities within the medical genetics profession.
If you would like more information regarding the ABGC’s plan for future certification examinations, please see visit the ABGC website.
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Program directors be advised, all residents and/or
fellows entering a residency and/or fellowship training
program beginning July 1, 2008 or later, must apply for
certification within five years of completing a genetics
residency and/or fellowship training program.
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ABMG will offer the first subspecialty certification
examination in Medical Biochemical Genetics in 2009.
Applications are now available.
Click here for more
information.
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Important Dates
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The purposes of the ABMG shall be: (a) to
elevate the standards and advance the art and science of
medical genetics by encouraging its study and improving its
practice; (b) to conduct examinations to determine the
qualifications of medical geneticists who voluntarily apply
to the ABMG for certification as Diplomates; (c) to grant
and issue Diplomate certificates in the field of medical
genetics and its various specialty areas to those medical
geneticists who have received adequate preparation in
accordance with the ABMG's educational, training, and
experience requirements, and who have passed the
comprehensive Certification Examinations administered by the
ABMG; (d) to maintain a registry of holders of such
certificates; (e) to evaluate and accredit qualified
training programs in the field of medical genetics; and (f)
thereby, to improve the public health.
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