Special testing accommodations is an issue that affects both medical specialty boards and physicians with disabilities in the administration of medical specialty examinations. To assess practices of medical specialty boards when physicians with disabilities request nonstandardized testing, all of the medical specialty boards were surveyed. It was found that there is great variance in policies, procedures, and practices regarding such testing. Flexible systems, both formal and informal, are currently in place that provide ample opportunities for reasonable accommodations when physicians take specialty board examinations.
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