Each year, the American Board of Internal Medicine® reviews and updates the content for the Critical Care Board Exams. Then, to help you focus your review, it issues an outline of the primary medical topics and their approximate percentages for a typical exam.
The topics you can expect to see on the 2024 Critical Care Medicine Certification and Critical Care Medicine Maintenance of Certification exams are:
| Percent of Exam | Hospice & Palliative Medicine Board Exam Topics |
|---|---|
| 10% | Prognostication and Natural History of Serious and Complex Illness |
| 20% | Comprehensive Whole-Patient Assessment |
| 40% | Managing Suffering and Distress |
| 5% | Palliative Care Emergencies and Refractory Symptoms |
| 6% | Management of Medical Interventions |
| 3% | Impending Death and the Death Event |
| 2% | Communication Skills |
| 3% | Grief, Loss, and Bereavement |
| 2% | Interdisciplinary Teamwork, Quality, and Professionalism |
| 2% | Quality and Compliance |
| 7% | Ethical and Legal Aspects of Care |
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