Recertification The American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Surgery recognizes the need for recertification for orthopedic surgeons. Various state agencies, licensing boards, and managed care plans have mandated orthopedic surgeons demonstrate they are practicing contemporary medicine within their field of specialty. Therefore, the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Surgery developed a recertification process and gave the first Recertification Examination in 1994. The examination is a one-hundred question, multiple-choice examination with questions taken from the area of general orthopedic surgery. The source material for the examination questions is the Current Concepts section and Instruction Course Lectures from the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Orthopedic Knowledge Updates. Those surgeons who have been certified BEFORE 1994 may take the recertification exam at any time. Those surgeons who were certified in 1994 or AFTER were issued a TEN-YEAR certificate and will be required to take the recertification examination prior to the expiration of their certificate. RECERTIFICATION WILL BE REQUIRED EVERY TEN (10) YEARS. The recertification examination will be given annually at the Annual Clinical Assembly. The Handbook for Candidates for Board Recertification is available online. To view it, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't already have it, you can get it by clicking the button to the right To view the document online, click the icon next to it. To download the document to view it offline: On a Macintosh computer, hold down [option] and click the icon next to the document. On a Windows 95/98 computer, use the right mouse button to click the icon beside the document, and choose "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As..." from the menu that pops up. Handbook for Candidates for Board Recertification recertbk.pdf 129k - Adobe Acrobat PDF Format