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The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is proud to offer a suite of study materials and review opportunities to help you prepare to become board certified.
NEW FOR 2026:
Becoming board certified, and maintaining this certification throughout your career, is a significant career milestone. Board certification is voluntary and demonstrates your exceptional expertise in the specialty of preventive medicine. Certification reflects the critical core physician values of compassion, patient-centeredness and a passion for education.
Please visit the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) website for detailed information and timelines related to Preventive Medicine Board Certification Exam.
ACPM offers myriad of opportunities to assist physicians in their exam preparation.
ACPM is offering a series of recorded lectures with subject matter experts covering the full certification requirements including new materials. Includes recordings and resources with individual access to digital study materials. In order to receive full CME credit, you must complete the lecture. You can click on any of the four bundles below for purchase. Once the courses become available in late July, all purchasers will have access to the bundle that they have purchased.
Practice Exam | Practice answering 125 questions of similar format and content to the exam and get instant feedback on how well you assimilated review course content. Answer explanations written by course faculty are included. This is a general practice exam that includes core content, it does not include specialty-specific content.
Clinical Privileges for PH/GPM Physicians | This document provides a delineation of clinical privileges for physicians in Preventive Medicine and serves as a template for prospective employers who may be unfamiliar with the specialty’s scope of practice. It outlines the required qualifications, core responsibilities, and authorized procedures to clarify the range of clinical services these specialists can provide. While it highlights a broad spectrum of preventive and clinical care activities, it is not all-inclusive and primarily focuses on clinical skills rather than the full scope of preventive medicine practice.
The American Board of Preventive Medicine manages all certification requirements and examination. All specialties must take the core exam as well as their specialty examination. Core content areas in the exam include health services management, epidemiology and biostatistics, clinical preventive medicine, behavior and mental health, and environmental. Specialty exams cover topics specific to aerospace medicine, occupational medicine or public health and general preventive medicine.