American Board of Medical Specialties

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In addition to that, I was really focused on excellence and expertise.

At that time, with the competency movement just taking hold, there was a lot of focus on the six core competencies that had just been announced by the ACGME and the ABMS.

And my concern was that people would go to the level of competence and not really focus on excellence and expertise that really needs to be our aspirational goal.

So those are some of the things that I wanted to establish and get started with.

Be careful of other boards, and I'm not going to name them because they're very litigious, but you know what I'm talking about, Robert.

Boards that don't have the same standards as the American Board of Medical Specialties that purport themselves to be equivalent boards.

I think you have to be careful of that.

I think any good surgeon should have a pretty broad portfolio of the case that that you want done.

I'll start by saying we've made a lot of progress over the last decade in the space of parental support.

We've had the American Board of Medical Specialties and the ACGME who have mandated that paid parental leave, which didn't exist prior to 2021.

And that's a starting place.

But what we find about policies is that they don't change the culture.