The physicians’ board certification was suspended for up to five years and those who have not yet passed the boards were barred from taking them for at least a year. Hundreds of compromised questions were removed from the exam’s question pool.
The physicians allegedly cooperated with Arora Board Review, a test-preparation company the ABIM sued last year. Arora allegedly encouraged them to provide questions from memory after taking the ABIM exam and gave them questions from the exam.
More than 180,000 physicians are ABIM-certified. While board certification is not needed to practice medicine, it is often necessary to obtain hospital privileges and perform some procedures.
Read the ABIM release on board certification.
See examples of the purloined ABIM exam questions.
