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	<font color="red">Please <a href="/downloads/ELIGIBILITY%20REQUIREMENTS%20Changes%20beginning%202007-01-01.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a> for application and eligibility changes, effective January 1, 2007.</font></p>
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	Please download Part 1 for the complete application packet for board certification through the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) affiliated Board of Certification.</p>
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	<b>Important notices:</b></p>
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	Do not submit your examination fee at this time, as it will be returned to you. The only fee you need to submit at this time is the appropriate application fee, see <a href="/initial-medical-board-certification-fees">fee schedule</a>.</p>
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	To insure the secure delivery of your application, supporting documents, and receive acknowledgment that it has been delivered to the ABPS, we highly recommend that you send these materials using Receipt Return Requested, or one of the overnight carriers that utilize a tracking system.</p>
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	Please be certain to carefully read the entire Board of Certification Information listed below.</p>
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	<b>Incomplete Application</b></p>
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	<b><b>Submission of an incomplete application may delay the Board&rsquo;s acceptance of your application in time for you to take the exam on the date you desire. </b></b></p>
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	<b><b>At the end of the application you will find a checklist detailing the items you need to attach to the application in order for your application to be considered complete. Please review the materials you are submitting against this checklist.</b></b></p>
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	<b><b>If, after a period of one year from your submission of your application, all of the application materials are not deemed complete and the application has not been approved by the appropriate board of certification, your application will become invalid, thereby requiring you to submit a new application and application fee in order to pursue certification. You must meet the certification requirements in effect at the time the second or subsequent application is received by ABPS.</b></b></p>
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	<b><b><font color="red">Revised January 2009</font></b></b></p>
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	<b><b><b>Part 1</b>: Board Certification Application<br />
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	<a href="/downloads/Family%20Practice1.pdf" target="_blank"><b><font color="black"><img alt="" src="http://www.abpsus.org/userfiles/images/reader_icon_thumb.png" style="width: 15px; height: 15px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px" />Download Board Certification Application</font></b></a><br />
	(.pdf, 262 KB)</p>

	<b><b>For a hard copy, please <a href="/contact/">contact us</a><a href="mailto:slobianco@aapsus.org">.</a></b></b></p>
