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EC RES. NO. 2 - April 12, 2016 – Page 1

SUBJECT:

ADDICTION MEDICINE

SUBMITTED BY:

Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists

REFERRED TO:

Executive Committee of the AOA Board of Trustees

WHEREAS, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) approved the Addiction Medicine

conjoint subspecialty/certification of additional qualification (CAQ) in 1995; and

WHEREAS, since 2002, when the AOA closed the clinical pathway to the subspecialty/CAQ,

390 osteopathic physicians sought and obtained American Society of Addiction

Medicine (ASAM)/ American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) certification

outside of the AOA; and

WHEREAS, ABAM recently entered into an agreement under which its certification program

will be administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (an American

Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS, board) and the new subspecialty of Addiction

Medicine will be open to any physician certified by any of the 24 Member Boards of the

ABMS; and

WHEREAS, osteopathic physicians who have primary certification from American Osteopathic

Association (AOA) Certifying Boards are effectively shut out of the process; therefore

be it

RESOLVED, that the AOA should create a mechanism to allow those osteopathic physicians

who have an Active AOA primary certification and an Active ABAM certification to be

granted subspecialty/CAQ certification in Addiction Medicine, with a requirement that

they maintain such certification through the AOA’s Addiction Medicine Osteopathic

Continuous Certification (OCC) process.

Explanatory Statement:

This resolution is strictly limited to the issue of allowing physicians with primary AOA board

certification and ABAM certification in addiction medicine a pathway to AOA subspecialty

certification in Addiction Medicine. There are no opportunities for osteopathic physicians with

primary certification from an AOA board to retain addiction medicine certification because the

ABMS boards require primary certification from an ABMS board. Once in the system,

examination will occur at the appropriate 10 year interval based on the date of initial

certification and other OCC requirements will apply.

FISCAL IMPACT: $

ACTION TAKEN _APPROVED______________

DATE _April 12, 2016______________

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