Board Review & Certification Resources

The American Board of Internal Medicine develops and administers the subspecialty certification examination in Infectious Disease. The American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine also offers an Infectious Disease subspecialty certification.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America website contains information on their Fellows In-Training Exam.

BoardVitals is an online exam review tool that gives you access to high quality Infectious Disease board review questions with detailed answers to help you prepare for the certification exams.  The Infectious Disease board review question bank follows the exam content outline for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Infectious Disease Certification Exam. Follow these instructions to set-up your account and start reviewing!

Registration

1. The first time logging in, go to BoardVitals New User Registration to begin registering for an account.
2. You must use your HFHS email address to create the account! This is how they know you're part of our subscription. (Your password can be anything you wish.) 
3. You'll receive an email to verify your account. Click the verification link in the email, then log into BoardVitals with the credentials you just created. 

Using the Question Bank

1. Login to BoardVitals https://www.boardvitals.com/users/sign_in#
   1. From the BoardVitals homepage, DO NOT fill in the "occupation" and "Exam" dropdowns to locate the Question Banks. Instead, click on "My Dashboard" in the top right corner.
   2. From your Dashboard, choose the desired Question Bank from the dropdown in the dark blue toolbar at the top of the page. 
2. The following are including in BoardVitals:
   • Infectious Disease
   • Infectious Disease MOC
3. Additional information on how to create Quizzes within a Question Bank can be found here: https://info.boardvitals.com/knowledge/how-do-i-use-boardvitals-2  and https://info.boardvitals.com/knowledge/getting-started-with-boardvitals

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine generates review questions from core review books. Click on Study Tools > Review Questions > Basic Sciences > Microbiology to access the books for Infectious Disease review:

• Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg’s Medical Microbiology, 28e 
• Levinson's Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 18e
• Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e
• Sherris & Ryan's Medical Microbiology, 8e 

You will be prompted to create a free MyAccess account in order to generate the quizzes. Your MyAccess account gives you access to review questions across the various topics in the Sladen Library subscription.