Should i be concerned about a surgeon who is not certified with the american board of surgery? surgeon is not abs certified should that be a reason to look for another surgeon who is?

Board : Board certification is one of the better ways of determining that your doctor is qualified to do whatever it is that he does. However, depending upon the specialty, board certification may or may not require some practice after training has been completed. In radiology, the board exam is taken during training, so radiologists can be board certified as soon as they enter practice. Surgery boards are taken later, so someone who recently finished his or her residency may not yet be board certified. Terminology makes this issue still more complicated. For example, there are several different specialties that practice in the broad category of image-guided surgery: radiologists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, and others routinely do procedures that might be considered "surgery, " and are fully trained and certified to do so by their own medical boards rather than by the american board of surgery. If your doctor has been in practice for several years and still lacks certification from any medical board, that could reflect a problem of some type.

Yes.: The american board of surgery (abs) offers certification to general surgeons, vascular surgeons, trauma/critical care surgeons, pediatric surgeons, and certain hand surgeons. If your surgeon practices in one of these areas and is not certified in that specialty by the abs, i suggest you find someone else. Orthopedic, neuro, urologic, and plastic surgeons have a separate certification board.