board certification

[bawrd sur-tuh-fi-key-shuhn]

noun

1. the process of certifying that a physician has passed an examination and met the standards of a professional organization representing a particular medical specialty.

Other Word Forms

• board-certified adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of board certification¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The company alleges in its lawsuit that the law deprives employers of due process on multiple fronts, including by forcing a company to enter a collective bargaining agreement even if it has formally appealed state labor board certification of a union vote and presented what it believes is evidence that the voting process was fraudulent.

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What about the gold standard of teaching, National Board Certification?

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Yet Dan Goldhaber, a professor at the University of Washington and one of the country’s preeminent researchers on teacher quality, found that board certification results in only modest gains to student learning — about five weeks’ acceleration in middle school math, at best.

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“A pediatric neurosurgeon must have the appropriate training, board certification, and experience to provide care to pediatric patients,” it said in an email.

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Singleton, 62, has a law degree, National Board certification as an instructor and 30 years of classroom experience.

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