What Does a Doctor Have to Do to Become Board Certified?
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What Does a Doctor Have to Do to Become Board Certified?
2 answers to What Does a Doctor Have to Do to Become Board Certified?
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Residency, Exams
Each specialty will have its own criteria for board certification. However, all boards require the completion of a residency in that specialty, followed by the passing of some type of examination.
To be certified by the American Board of Dermatology one must finish a year residency, usually in internal medicine, followed by three years of dermatology in a board certified program. Then the prospective dermatologist must sit for his/her boards. This may have changed, but when I...
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Arnold R. Oppenheim, MD
Virginia Beach Dermatologist
Virginia Beach Dermatologist
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Boar certification
Board certification is specific for each specialty. Plastic surgery has one of the most vigorous processes. When I trained it required at least 3-5 years of general surgery and 2 years of plastic surgery training along with a written exam and an oral exam based upon cases that I performed over a select period of time. Other specialities differ.
