Application for Nurse Practitioners & Pysician Assistants
Download an application here. The next exam will be administered Sept. 18 – Oct. 2, 2010 at testing centers across the country. The early application deadline is June 15, 2010, and the final application deadline is July 31, 2010. All applications must be postmarked by the corresponding date.
Qualifications for Certification
- A copy of each of the state, providence or jurisdictional Nurse Licensure or Physician Assistant Licensure in which the applicant currently practices medicine. Physician candidates that have not completed a U.S. or Canadian medical residency or the equivalent training in a U.S. territory are required to submit evidence of completed medical training as well as active licensure where the applicant currently practices medicine.
- A copy of the applicant’s DEA registration certificate where applicable.
- A signed Declaration and Consent form.
- A minimum of one hundred (100) credit hours of continuing medical education (CME) are required for certification. Fifty (50) of those credit hours must include Prescribed CME which involve education in the core-content of Bariatric Medicine as defined by the ABBM. The remainder fifty (50) credit hours may be fulfilled by Elective CME which involve education on obesity-related topics in a broader sense. The one hundred (100) credit hours should be completed within the thirty six (36) months of submission of the final application deadline (7/31/07-7/31/10). A copy of the applicant’s CME certificates should accompany the application.
