American Board of Plastic Surgery Inc. Assures the Standard of Competence of Its Plastic Surgeons

The whole process of certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery has been designed to assure the public that the plastic surgeon has completed an approved educational program as well as an evaluation that also includes examination processes that assesses the knowledge, skills as well as experience requisite to providing high quality patient care in that particular specialty. The umbrella organization for twenty-four approved specialty certifying boards is The American Board of Medical Specialists, and in order to be certified as a specialist by one of the twenty-four recognized boards, the physician need to compete specified requirements. The American Board of Plastic Surgery Inc. has been around since 1937 and is organized around various interest groups involved in plastic surgery, and it became a subsidiary of the American Board of Surgery in May 1938, and three years later obtained the status of a major specialty board.

Main Purposes

The main purposes of the American Board of Plastic Surgery is to establish requirements for the qualification of applicants, conduct examinations of approved candidates, issue certificates to those who meet the Board’s requirements and to do and engage in any and all lawful activities incidental to these purposes. Choosing to get plastic surgery performed by an American Board of Plastic Surgery Inc. plastic surgeon will assure patients that they are being treated by a doctor that is a graduate from an accredited medical school and one who has finished a minimum of five years of extra training as a resident surgeon. The concerned plastic surgeon must have undergone at least three years of residency in an accredited general surgery program as well as at least two years of residency in plastic surgery.

For a plastic surgeon to get accredited with the American Board of Plastic Surgery Inc.’s program the doctor should also have completed successfully comprehensive oral and written exams and the whole process of Certification is a voluntary process that can be taken, if so desired. The American Board of Plastic Surgery Certification is one of twenty-four specialty boards recognized and spans the entire spectrum of the plastic surgery specialty. The American Board of Plastic Surgery Diplomate is one who has fulfilled all the requirements and is setting out to promote safe, efficacious, and ethical plastic surgery through adhering to the highest standards with regard to examination, and all other aspects of plastic surgery.

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