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Photo Courtesy of Beu Health Center: Western's Beu Health Center's Medical Chief of Staff Dr. Richard B. Iverson recently successfully completed the American Board of Family Medicine's recertification examination.
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Beu Physician Achieves Board Certification

October 14, 2008

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MACOMB, IL -- Western Illinois University's Beu Health Center is pleased to announce that Medical Chief of Staff Dr. Richard B. Iverson has successfully completed the American Board of Family Medicine's recertification examination.

According to Mary Margaret Harris, Beu Health Center director, board certification confers a standard of excellence in knowledge and practice to physicians who are not only certified through the examination process, but who also work diligently on the maintenance of their skills during the seven-year cycle between examinations.

"As leader of our medical staff, Dr. Iverson has demonstrated his commitment to the constantly changing needs of WIU students," Harris said.

To achieve recertification by the American Board of Family Medicine, a physician must verify the completion of 300 hours of acceptable continuing medical education over the past six years; possess a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the U.S.; and successfully complete a one-day, written examination testing cognitive knowledge and problem-solving abilities.

The American Board of Family Medicine, one of 24 member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties, is the second largest medical specialty board in the U.S. Founded in 1969, it is a voluntary, not-for-profit, private organization whose purposes include improving the quality of medical care available to the public, establishing and maintaining standards of excellence in the family medicine specialty, improving the standards of medical education for family medicine training and determining by evaluation the fitness of family medicine specialists who apply for and hold certificates.

For more information, contact Harris at (309) 298-1888 or MM-Harris@wiu.edu.

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