Application & Exam Fees

• By submitting this application, you are agreeing to pay the $640 nonrefundable application fee. The ABR will send you a confirmation email that your application has been received, and instructions on paying the application fee via your myABR account.
• Once the application fee has been received, your application will be processed and reviewed by the board.
• If your application is approved, you will be charged the IR/DR Oral exam fee $1280. If you are taking the Oral & the Certifying/Written exams together, the Certifying/Written exam fee is covered under the 5 Annual fees you already submitted. You will receive an email notifying you that your application has been approved, and instructions on paying the exam fee via your myABR account. Exam fees are due 2 months prior to the exam date.
• If your application is not approved, you will receive an email outlining the reason your application was not accepted. You would then re-apply in the future when you meet the application requirements.

More information is available on the ABR website:

• Requirements and Registration
• Dates, Locations and Fees

Important information regarding NRC Authorized User Eligiblity

The NRC has not yet provided the ABR permission to issue the Authorized User Eligibility (AU-E) designation on IR/DR certificates.

YOU MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:

These documents must be saved to your computer prior to starting the application.
You cannot save & return to the application later.

1. Official letter (letterhead) from your program director, documenting your fellowship training, with dates, or a copy of your fellowship certificate.
2. Official letter (letterhead) from your department head, documenting your post-training practice experience, with dates, and percentage of time devoted to the subspecialty. (Minimum 15 hours per week must be devoted to IR)
3. Completed ABR Fellowship Case Log with complication(s), signed by your program director. (Minimum 500 cases) Fellowship Case Log .
4. Completed ABR Practice Case Log with complication(s), signed by your department chair or head of your group. (Minimum 200 cases) Practice Case Log .
   
   **Note** All case logs must include the classification of the complication and the number of each type of complication.

Successful ABR candidates are awarded a continuous ABR specialty certificate in interventional/diagnostic radiology (IR/DR). When IR/DR certification is issued, the Diagnostic Radiology certificate will no longer be visible on the ABR website. ABMS CertiFACTS will show the entire certification history, so credentialers will see that the Diagnostic Radiology certificate was “converted”. If the converted Diagnostic Radiology certificate was a lifetime certificate and for any reason decide you would like to drop the IR component of your IR/DR certificate at a later time, your lifetime DR certificate will be re-issued. No new requirements will be attached to the re-issued lifetime certificate. Please see the IR/DR Certificate Conversion FAQs for more information.

In order to submit this applicaiton you must have completed your annual MOC attestation for the components listed below.

o Part 1: State medical license
o Part 2: Lifelong Learning & Self-Assessment
o Part 4: Practice Quality Improvement Project or Activity

Based on your response, we have ended your application session. If you wish to continue, click "Back" button to modify your selection. Once you select "Yes" you will be able to continue the application process.

If you have any quesitons please contact us at information@theabr.org or call (520) 790-2900.

Thank you!