A CHOC neonatologist has been named a participant in the American Board of Medical Specialties’ 2024-2025 Visiting Scholars Program.
Dr. Grant Schafer is one of 11 participants in the one-year, part-time program that supports early-career physicians and researchers in scholarship and leadership development focusing on initial and continuing board certification. Each scholar receives a $15,000 financial award.
Beginning in October, the cohort’s term will last one year, culminating at the ABMS Conference 2025, where each participant will present their research.
Co-sponsored by The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Dr. Shafer’s project is titled, “Determining the Frequency of Diagnostic Errors in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Surrounding Transport Using the Safer Dx NICU Instrument.”
While participating in the program, Dr. Shafer will remain at CHOC while collaborating with self-selected mentors and participating in monthly virtual sessions with research project-in-progress updates to peers, mentors, subject matter experts, and ABMS visiting scholar alumni.
Dr. Shafer and his fellow ABMS visiting scholars were selected based on the quality of their proposed research project, the relevance of their research to the ABMS mission and the certification community, and the possibility of making considerable progress on the research project during the scholar year.
ABMS was established in 1933 and is responsible for the creation of standards overseeing physician certification in the United States. Dedicated to improving the quality of care to the patients, families and communities they serve, the 24 ABMS Member Boards develop educational and professional standards and programs of assessment to certify physicians and medical specialists.
More than 985,000 physicians and medical specialists are certified by one or more of the ABMS Member Boards in one or more of 40 specialties and 89 subspecialties.
