One of the eligibility criteria for the Specialty Qualifying Examination are the Resident and Program Director Attestations.
At the end of training each resident will be expected to attest to the following:
1. Compliance with the ABOG Professionalism, Professional Standing, and Professional Conduct Policy.
2. Met the educational objectives of their training program.
3. Have demonstrated the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to enter autonomous practice.
4. Have met the ABOG requirements in Family Planning.
The Program Director attests, on behalf of the training program, to the residents’ satisfactory performance, professionalism, competence, and successful completion of the required months of clinical experience.
Attestations will be available to both residents and Program Directors starting May 1st and will be due no later than June 30th. Results of the examination will not be released until all resident and Program Director attestations are complete.
A new attestation is not necessary for those candidates who have completed their residency training and stat the Specialty Qualifying Examination in a prior year if an attestation has been previously received at ABOG.
The attestation statement will be a task on the resident and current Program Director’s personal ABOG portal which can be found by logging on at www.abog.org, clicking on the Administrative Tasks tab, and selecting the attestation task. The attestation task will be available to both residents and Program Directors starting May 1st and will be due no later than June 30th.
Attestations must be completed by both the resident and Program Director for the resident to receive their Specialty Qualifying Examination results which are released in October of the year of the exam.
If there is a resident in your program who has either transferred or withdrawn, you will need to update their training dates and status in the Add/Maintain Residents Task. Once this information has been updated, the Program Director will complete a training attestation in their personal ABOG portal under the Administrative Tasks tab.
Residents graduating after May 31, 2020 are required to fulfill the Surgical Skills Program standard by completing the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) or Essentials in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (EMIGS) programs.
Learn more about FLS.
Learn more about EMIGS.
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