ABA Shares the Latest News with Core Programs at SAAAPM 2024 Annual Meeting

The ABA shared upcoming policy updates, exam performance correlations and programmatic initiatives that impact core and subspecialty anesthesiology programs at Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine’s (SAAAPM) Annual Meeting Nov. 8-9. The ABA is invited annually to present at SAAAPM to connect and engage with anesthesiology programs to continue to develop and maintain career-long partnerships with anesthesiologists as they meet the high bar of board certification and seamlessly transition into continuing certification.

ABA Secretary John Fiadjoe, M.D., and ABA Director Mohammed Minhaj, M.D., MBA, provided an ABA/In-Training Examination (ITE) Update during the Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors concurrent session. They presented updates on the ABA’s Residency Training Information Database (RTID), reviewed 2025 and 2026 ITE registration dates and highlighted the upcoming 2025 Program Director Meeting.

When presenting additional noteworthy ABA updates, they shared updates surrounding our BASIC Exam and Training Away policies, a new addition to our Alternate Entry Pathways and the rollout of our 2025-30 Strategic Plan and new Formative Assessment for Residents pilot. To conclude their presentation, they reviewed the correlation in initial certification performance to the ITE, BASIC, ADVANCED and APPLIED Exams.

You can view the slides from this session here.

Drs. Fiadjoe and Minhaj also led a breakout session for subspecialty program directors, where they were able to provide additional details regarding key fellowship policy updates and review subspecialty success rates.

You can view the slides from the subspecialty breakout here.

SAAAPM is the umbrella organization supporting the Association of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs, Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors and Association of Anesthesiology Program Administrators and Educations. The SAAAPM Annual Meeting is designed for academic anesthesiologists in chair, core residency program director, subspecialty fellowship program director and residency program administrator positions. Annual Meeting programming works to educate and share information that will enable academic anesthesiology departments to improve management and care.