• Ensure that all candidates for the certifying examinations are qualified by education ... including medical school (allopathic medical school, osteopathic medical school and foreign medical schools), internship and completed specialty training program.
• Ensure that the boards seeking ABMA accreditation establish and maintain standards for the administration of examinations for certification.
• Aid the boards in establishing criteria and approving standards endorsed by all boards for admission of candidates to the certifying examinations.
• Evaluate all boards fairly regarding their mission and purpose of existence as a separate certifying specialty.
• Avoid exclusion on the basis of specialty board's applicant's educational background, i.e.; medical school, osteopathic medical school, foreign medical school, place of internship or training program, to meet the requirements for certification.
• Evaluate candidates fairly on their qualifications in the specialty for which they are applying for certification. They must be able to document all educational background and training and/or sufficient experience in said specialty to satisfy the requirements of ABMA.
• Receive and encourage applicants for ABMA membership by proposed new specialty boards and act fairly and expediently on the applications.
• Disseminate to the public, upon request, the ABMA certification status of member boards.
• Coordinate the exchange of information among ABMA member boards that may improve quality and efficiency and enhance goals.
• Provide educational programs to professionals and the public to provide information on what it means to be a specialty board and board certified specialist with the ABMA accreditation.
• It is the purpose and responsibility of ABMA to enhance, not replace, the other accrediting boards and add an extra dimension that they may not be able to provide, traditionally or politically. ABMA agrees with them in standards and principal.
• Assist in and encourage recertification of the specialty boards diplomats
• Review each ABMA member boards' certifying process on a regular basis
• It is the ethical responsibility of ABMA to educate the public on the merits of ABMA's "stamp of approval" on medical specialty certifying boards and their diplomats. This is to include the intemet, media contacts, press and television advertising.

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• Mission Statement