Knowledge, Judgment, and Skills in Reproductive Health Care and Abortion Are Essential to the Practice of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

A social contract exists between medicine and society. In fulfilling the social contract to our patients and society, physicians have an obligation to provide the evidence-based care that patients want and need. What do the data regarding knowledge, judgment, and skills required to practice obstetrics and gynecology show? Obstetrics and gynecology job task analyses assess the importance of knowledge, judgment, and skills through surveys asking practicing physicians about the criticality and frequency of a variety of task statements to create an importance score.

The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology's remote certifying examination: successes and challenges.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology canceled the 2020 in-person subspecialty certifying examinations and developed remote administration of 4 subspecialty certifying examinations in 2021 for both examiners and candidates. Because of the continued risks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 specialty certifying examinations and the 2022 subspecialty certifying examinations were also administered remotely for candidates. For these examinations, examiners participated remotely in 2021 and were at the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology testing center in 2022.