ABOG CASE LOG INTELLIGENCE

The case list advantage.
Built into your workflow from day one.

The oral certifying examination is built from your submitted case list. The physician who documents strategically from July 1 walks in with an edge no review course can replicate. PDI Med is the first scalable oral board infrastructure built for the board-eligible OB/GYN — not a study tool, not a checklist, but a system that reads your cases the way an examiner does, starting the day you commit your first encounter.

96% QE pass rate 2025 Written qualifying exam
~85% CE pass rate Oral certifying exam
1,452 Candidates, 2023 CE 420 examiners · Dallas, TX
3 Exam sessions OB · GYN · Office · 1 hr each
THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE

The exam is your case list.

Each 1-hour session (OB, GYN, Office) is divided into two halves. The first 30 minutes: standardized scenarios written by ABOG examiners — same for every candidate. The second 30 minutes: questions built exclusively from your submitted case list. The examiner has read your cases before you walk in. They have selected which ones to probe. Every case you submitted is fair game.

First 30 minutes
Standardized cases
ABOG-written scenarios. Rapid-fire. Same for every candidate. Prepped with PROLOG, board review courses, and standard guidelines. High pass rate — the preparation path is well-defined.
Second 30 minutes
Your cases
Questions about your specific submitted cases. The examiner chose which ones to probe before you entered the room. Documentation quality determines how defensible your answers are. Vague entries invite aggressive follow-up.
Where boards are won or lost
EXACT REQUIREMENTS

Three sections. Three sets of rules. Zero ambiguity.

These are the requirements per the current ABOG Specialty CE Bulletin. PDI Med monitors ABOG bulletins and updates this page when requirements change — you don't have to track it separately.

OB SECTION
≥20
Complicated cases only
Uncomplicated vaginal deliveries and routine repeat cesareans are explicitly excluded. Every OB case must document the specific complication that makes it eligible.
Required fields on every OB case:
  • Gestational age at admission (not at delivery)
  • Delivery type
  • Complication documented
  • Nights in hospital
GYN SECTION
≥20
All surgical cases
Inpatient OR and outpatient ASC cases both count. Office procedures do not count here — they belong in the Office section.
Required fields on every GYN case:
  • Pre-operative and post-operative diagnosis
  • Procedure(s) performed and surgical route
  • Uterine weight in grams (all hysterectomies)
  • Cyst diameter in cm (all ovarian cases)
OFFICE SECTION
= 40
Exactly 40 submitted. Not 38. Not 42.
Clinic and office-based procedures only. ASC and surgical center cases belong in GYN. Minimum 20 must be "applied" management cases.
Your vault should hold more than 40 office cases. Commit every clinically significant office encounter throughout the year — the vault holds all of it. When you're ready to submit, PDI Med helps you curate the strongest 40 from your full collection. If you submit more than 40, ABOG silently takes the top cases by their internal ordering and does not notify you which ones were dropped or why your count appears short. PDI Med prevents this: the export gate confirms exactly 40 are selected before the file generates.
Required fields on every Office case:
  • Number of office visits for this case
  • Primary diagnosis
  • Management plan summary
Maximum 2 cases per subcategory across all three sections
This is the most commonly violated rule and the most consequential one. Submit three preeclampsia cases and ABOG silently rejects one — you walk into the exam thinking you have 80 cases, ABOG counted 77, and no one told you which subcategory put you over. PDI Med watches every subcategory count across every section, all year long. You don't carry this rule in your head. You commit a case, review what was parsed, confirm the subcategory is right — 30 seconds while the chart is open. Once it's verified, PDI Med handles the count.
The vault holds everything. The deck is what ABOG sees.
PDI Med draws a hard line between your full clinical vault and your ABOG submission deck. Commit every encounter — complicated or not, board-eligible or not. The vault is your complete clinical record, encrypted and searchable. When submission approaches, the deck builder surfaces your strongest cases by score, lets you query by section or examiner topic, and curates the submission from your full collection. ABOG only sees the deck. The vault stays with you — before, during, and long after boards. The export gate is the gate before the gate: it will not generate a file until every ABOG rule is satisfied by the selected deck. No surprises at the portal.
OB SECTION ELIGIBILITY

What "complicated" actually means — and what ABOG explicitly excludes.

"Complicated OB case" is not a judgment call. ABOG has a defined list. Most new attendings don't know it in detail until they're three months into collecting cases and discover they've been logging cases that don't qualify. Every OB case must have a documented complication from the categories below — the complication is what makes it eligible.

You don't have to know this list to use PDI Med correctly.
PDI Med's algorithm reads your clinical note and identifies whether a case qualifies as a complicated OB case before you commit it to your vault. If the documentation doesn't clearly establish a qualifying complication, PDI Med surfaces that before you log the case — not three months later when you're short on OB cases and out of time. You can hit submit by July 31 knowing every case in your deck counted.
ELIGIBLE — Obstetric complications
  • Preeclampsia / eclampsia / HELLP syndrome
  • Gestational hypertension with severe features
  • Placenta previa or accreta spectrum
  • Placental abruption
  • Postpartum hemorrhage (requiring intervention)
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Operative vaginal delivery (vacuum or forceps)
  • Malpresentation (breech, transverse, compound)
  • Cord prolapse or cord accident
  • Preterm labor or preterm PROM (<37 weeks)
  • Prolonged labor with intervention
  • Chorioamnionitis requiring treatment
  • Fetal distress requiring operative intervention
  • Uterine rupture
  • Multiple gestation with complication
  • Maternal medical complication (diabetes, cardiac, etc.)
  • Postpartum complication (endometritis, wound, PE, etc.)
  • Abnormal fetal surveillance requiring delivery
INELIGIBLE — Explicitly excluded
  • Uncomplicated vaginal delivery (no documented complication)
  • Routine repeat cesarean with no complication
  • Elective primary cesarean for maternal request with no indication
  • Normal spontaneous vaginal delivery with episiotomy only
  • Scheduled repeat cesarean, uncomplicated, routine postpartum course
The presence of an indication for cesarean (prior uterine surgery, malpresentation) does not by itself make the case complicated. The case must have a documented obstetric complication. When in doubt, document the specific complication — ABOG reviews what you write, not what you intended.
The most common OB eligibility mistake: "I had a cesarean, so it counts."
A cesarean for malpresentation at term with an uncomplicated course does not qualify. The malpresentation is the indication for the procedure, not the complication. The OB case requires a complication that arose during or as a result of the obstetric event — not simply a non-routine delivery. PDI Med's parser reads your clinical note before you commit and surfaces whether the documentation clearly establishes a qualifying complication. If it doesn't, PDI Med tells you what's missing and where to find it — before the case enters your OB count. You don't discover the problem three months later. You solve it the same day you logged the case.
SUBCATEGORY REFERENCE

Every subcategory across all three sections. Maximum 2 per subcategory — no exceptions.

ABOG's subcategory list determines what counts against your maximum-2-per-category limit. Cases are grouped by their primary diagnosis or procedure category. A preeclampsia case and a preeclampsia with severe features case are in the same subcategory — you can submit at most 2 from that group. This rule trips up nearly every physician who doesn't have a system tracking it automatically.

You don't need to track it. PDI Med does.

Commit your cases — including the third preeclampsia, the fourth LEEP. Each commit takes about 30 seconds: PDI Med parses your clinical note, you review what was extracted, confirm the subcategory looks right, and commit. That review step is the work — and it's the right work, done at the moment when your chart is open and the clinical context is still fresh. Once a case is verified and committed, PDI Med handles the subcategory count. When you're ready to submit or practice, it applies the max-2 rule across your full vault and surfaces your strongest cases automatically.

OB SUBCATEGORIES
  • Hypertensive disorders
  • Obstetric hemorrhage
  • Placental abnormalities
  • Preterm labor / PPROM
  • Operative vaginal delivery
  • Abnormal fetal presentation
  • Shoulder dystocia
  • Multiple gestation
  • Fetal surveillance / distress
  • Obstetric infection
  • Maternal medical complication
  • Postpartum complication
  • Uterine rupture / scar
  • Other obstetric complication
GYN SUBCATEGORIES
  • Hysterectomy (by route)
  • Myomectomy
  • Adnexal surgery
  • Endometriosis / adhesion
  • Cervical dysplasia / surgery
  • Pelvic organ prolapse
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Hysteroscopic procedure
  • Laparoscopic procedure (other)
  • Vulvar / vaginal surgery
  • Bartholin / vulvar lesion
  • Sterilization procedure
  • Oncologic procedure
  • Other gynecologic procedure
OFFICE SUBCATEGORIES
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Cervical dysplasia management
  • Contraception management
  • Pelvic pain / endometriosis
  • Vulvar / vaginal disorder
  • Menopause management
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Pelvic organ prolapse
  • Infertility evaluation
  • STI / infectious disease
  • Prenatal care (applied management)
  • High-risk OB consultation
  • Genetic counseling / testing
  • Other office / applied management
ABOG does not publish a public subcategory list — this is synthesized from the CE Bulletin, ABR archives, and physician experience.
The categories above reflect current ABOG structure as understood from the Certifying Examination Bulletin and America's Board Review resources. ABOG may adjust subcategory groupings between cycles — PDI Med monitors bulletin updates and applies any changes to your committed cases automatically. You don't need to re-audit your case list when ABOG updates its requirements. We do that for you.
CROSS-SECTION CASES

Can the same patient count in Office, GYN, and OB? Yes. And examiners know it.

A patient can appear in your case list more than once — across different sections — if she represents distinct, documentable clinical encounters in each category. The woman you managed in the office for abnormal uterine bleeding, then took to the OR for a hysterectomy, then managed postoperatively through a complication: that is three legitimate case entries, one per section, all from the same patient. ABOG does not prohibit this. The sections are distinct.

More importantly: the oral board examiner knows this too. One of the most common examination arcs is exactly this pattern — the examiner starts in the office ("you see a 42-year-old with heavy menstrual bleeding…"), moves to the surgical decision ("she fails medical management — what now?"), then escalates to the complication ("intraoperative bleeding, what do you do?"). That single patient arc covers three sections of your clinical reasoning. A physician whose case list reflects this continuity — who documented the office visit, the GYN case, and the postoperative complication separately — walks into that exam line with depth the examiner can actually probe.

Office entry
AUB management
Initial workup, failed medical management, shared decision-making on surgical route. Counts in the Office section under Abnormal Uterine Bleeding subcategory.
GYN entry
Hysterectomy
The procedure itself — route selection, intraoperative findings, technique. Counts in the GYN section under Hysterectomy subcategory.
OB entry (if applicable)
Postoperative complication
A postpartum or postoperative complication managed as a distinct clinical event. Counts in the appropriate section if it meets the complication threshold.
Legacy collecting makes this nearly impossible to manage. PDI Med makes it invisible.
In a spreadsheet, tracking one patient across three sections — with correct subcategory assignments, individual strength scores, and an awareness of how each entry affects your section counts — requires real mental load. Most physicians don't do it, not because the cases don't exist, but because the system doesn't surface them.

PDI Med's multi-commit architecture lets you log each clinical encounter for a patient separately, tagged to the correct section and subcategory. Each commit is scored independently for examiner strength. When you build your deck, you can carry all three entries, two of them, or one — depending on which sections need cases and which subcategories still have room. The cross-section clinical arc the examiner is trained to probe becomes an asset in your case list, not a tracking problem. You log the encounters. PDI Med manages the architecture.
THE COLLECTION YEAR

Every deadline is hard. There are no extensions.

Dates below reflect the 2025–2026 collection cycle. PDI Med tracks ABOG deadline changes — this page is updated when the bulletin changes. Missing the July 31 case list deadline means waiting a full year to sit for boards.

ABOG Annual Collection Timeline 2025–2026 Case collection window (Jul 1 – Jun 30) CRITICAL CRITICAL 1 JUL 1 Collection begins AUG Pace check ~15 cases ! SEP Board app deadline ~30 cases target JUN 30 Collection ends Exam weeks assigned ! JUL 31 Case list due No extensions 80+ cases submitted Oral boards Oct–Dec DALLAS, TX 3 sessions OB · GYN · Office MONTHLY PACE TARGETS Month 1 8 Month 3 22 Month 6 44 Month 9 66 Month 12 80+ PDI Med shows your pace vs. these targets and counts down to every deadline
Live deadline countdown
Board application and case list submission deadlines shown on your PDI Med home screen from day one.
Monthly pace tracking
Your actual case count vs. the 8 · 22 · 44 · 66 · 80+ pace model. Know by month 3 if you're on track.
Export only when clear
All ABOG blockers must resolve before PDI Med generates your export. No surprises at the July 31 deadline.
SCORING AND PASS/FAIL

How the oral certifying exam is actually scored. What pass, fail, and condition mean.

The oral certifying exam is scored by section. Each examiner evaluates the physician's performance across their assigned session using a structured scoring model — not a subjective impression. ABOG uses trained examiners with calibrated criteria. The ~85% pass rate reflects that the system is designed to certify physicians who demonstrate safe, competent practice — not to fail people on technicalities.

Pass
Certified
Demonstrates safe, competent clinical reasoning across all three sections. Examiner concludes the physician practices at or above the standard expected of a board-certified OB/GYN. Board certification issued. Valid for 6 years; Maintenance of Certification required thereafter.
Condition
Partial pass — one section failed
Failed one of three sections; passed the other two. Must retake only the failed section. Section retake scheduled for the following examination cycle. The two passed sections do not need to be retaken.
Fail
Must retake
Failed two or more sections. Must repeat the full examination in the following cycle. A new case list is required for retake — the previously submitted list cannot be reused without re-collection. Physicians have a 7-year window from first CE attempt to achieve certification before additional requirements apply.
What the examiner is actually deciding
The scoring is not about perfect recall. It is about whether you practice safely and whether you know the limits of your own knowledge. An examiner who pushes you to the edge of what you know is doing their job correctly — that's the methodology. Feeling uncomfortable in a section means the examiner is calibrating the boundary of your competency. A physician who handles the edge gracefully — acknowledging limits, identifying when to consult, demonstrating safe clinical judgment — passes. A physician who guesses confidently past the edge of their knowledge is a greater concern to the examiner than one who says "I would consult MFM at this point."
The 7-year certification window
Physicians have 7 years from their first CE attempt to achieve certification. After that window, additional requirements — including potential re-examination and re-verification of clinical activity — apply. This makes a failed first attempt recoverable, but it does create time pressure that compounds with each retake cycle. The window is from first CE attempt, not from residency graduation.
THE APPLICATION PROCESS

Applying for the certifying exam. What you need, when, and what happens if you have to come back.

The board application is separate from the case list submission and has an earlier deadline. Missing the application deadline means waiting a full year — you cannot submit a case list for a cycle you didn't apply to.

Step 1 — Verify eligibility (before July 1)
Confirm your residency completion date, USMLE/COMLEX scores, and current medical license are on file with ABOG. Log into My ABOG and verify your profile before you start collecting cases. Eligibility issues found in November are catastrophic. Found in June, they're fixable.
Step 2 — Submit board application (September deadline)
Complete and submit the CE application through My ABOG by the September deadline. Pay the application fee. At this point you are committing to this examination cycle. Missing this date means sitting out a full year. PDI Med shows a live countdown to this deadline from day one.
Step 3 — Submit case list (July 31 deadline)
Complete the case list through the ABOG online submission portal. The deadline is July 1–31 (standard); August 1–31 with a late fee. All three sections must meet requirements. No extensions. ABOG confirms receipt — wait for that confirmation before assuming submission was successful.
Step 4 — Receive exam assignment (by late June)
ABOG assigns your specific exam date, time, and examiner pairing in Dallas. You receive the case list your examiners will use. Review it carefully — the case list that goes to Dallas may differ slightly from what you submitted if ABOG made any adjustments.

If you have to come back: what the retake looks like

A failed certifying exam is recoverable. Roughly 15% of candidates do not pass on the first attempt. The retake process depends on how many sections were failed.

1
Conditional — one section failed Retake one section

You retake only the failed section in the next examination cycle. The two sections you passed are credited permanently — they do not expire while you remain in the certification window. A new case list submission is required for the retake, but only the failed section's cases need to be new. You do not restart the collection year from scratch.

2+
Failed two or more sections Full retake required

All three sections must be retaken. A completely new case list is required — you must collect a new year of cases; the previous submission cannot be reused. This resets the practical preparation cycle, though your 7-year window from first attempt continues to count down.

The difference between a failed first attempt and a permanent barrier is preparation.
Physicians who fail once and pass on the second attempt overwhelmingly cite the same factors: insufficient case list preparation, under-prepared defense of their own cases, and inadequate practice with the oral examination format. The case list work is the preparation. The examiner will push you hardest on your weakest documented cases. The physician who walks into the retake with a stronger case list and practiced defenses of every case on it has addressed the root cause. That is exactly what PDI Med is designed to produce.
2024–2025 CYCLE INSIGHTS

Where examiners are going.

Synthesized from America's Board Review tip archives (Aug 2024 – Mar 2025) and physician experience reporting. Relative frequency reflects examiner emphasis, not pass/fail risk.

Very high
Shoulder dystocia — HELPERR sequence
Must know: H=Help, E=Episiotomy evaluate, L=Legs (McRoberts), P=suprapubic Pressure, E=Enter (Rubin II / Woods screw), R=Remove posterior arm, R=Roll (Gaskin). Sequence matters — examiners ask what you do when the first maneuver fails, and then what you do when the second fails.
Very high
Postpartum hemorrhage — uterotonic sequence and surgical escalation
Oxytocin → methylergonovine (contraindicated with HTN) → carboprost (contraindicated with asthma) → misoprostol. Doses and contraindications required. Then: intrauterine balloon, B-Lynch suture, compression sutures, uterine devascularization, hysterectomy timing decision.
Very high
Placenta accreta spectrum — multidisciplinary planning
Antenatal diagnosis criteria, imaging characteristics, team assembled before delivery, surgical approach rationale. Who was in the room, why, and when you contacted IR or urology. Blood products plan. Examiners probe whether you had a real plan or discovered it in the OR.
High
Hysterectomy route selection — justifying robotic vs. vaginal
Vaginal hysterectomy rates are declining nationally. Examiners probe why you chose the route you chose — cost, OR time, uterine size, prior surgery, surgeon volume. America's Board Review (Mar 2025) recommends at least 3 vaginal hysterectomies on the GYN list. If you don't have any, prepare to defend why not.
High
Preeclampsia with severe features — criteria, expectant thresholds, magnesium
Know exact severe feature criteria: BP ≥160/110 on two occasions ≥15 min apart, platelet <100k, creatinine >1.1 or doubling, LFTs >2x ULN, pulmonary edema, new-onset headache. Expectant management at 34 weeks. Magnesium sulfate: 4–6g IV load, 1–2g/hr maintenance, toxicity signs (loss of DTRs, respiratory depression).
High
Operative vaginal delivery — prerequisites and failed instrument
Five prerequisites: fully dilated, membranes ruptured, position and station confirmed, adequate analgesia, empty bladder. Examiners ask what you do after a failed vacuum attempt — specifically whether you proceed to forceps or cesarean and why. Operative vaginal delivery is declining nationally and is therefore heavily probed.
High
Urogynecology — POP-Q staging and apical repair rationale
POP-Q staging must be precise — Aa, Ba, C, D, Ap, Bp, gh, pb, tvl. Apical support approach: sacrocolpopexy vs. uterosacral vs. sacrospinous. Native tissue vs. mesh discussion. Most generalists refer urogyn cases — if absent from your list, prepare to defend your management of the prolapse cases you did see.
High
ASCCP cervical dysplasia pathways — when to colposcope vs. observe
2019 ASCCP risk-based management guidelines. CIN 2 in a 22-year-old: observation is preferred over treatment. LEEP vs. CKC indications. Positive LEEP margins: management algorithm. Examiners follow the full arc from abnormal Pap to treatment to surveillance — know each step.
"And then what?" — the second question is where boards are won or lost.
Examiners follow every initial management answer with escalation questions. The physician who can walk through the full decision tree — not just the opening move — passes. PDI Med's board examiner uses your actual cases and asks you the second question on the scenarios most likely to come up.
NATIONAL PRACTICE TRENDS

The shift examiners are watching — and probing.

Robotic hysterectomy has expanded significantly over the last decade. Vaginal hysterectomy rates have declined. Examiners are acutely aware of this shift — route selection justification is one of the most reliably probed decision points in the GYN session. [ABR Mar 2025]

↑
Robotic
Increasingly dominant nationally. Examiners probe cost justification and what you would do without robotics available.
→
Laparoscopic
Stable. Standard minimally invasive approach. Less examiner emphasis on route justification.
↓
Abdominal
Declining. If present on your list, examiners will ask why minimally invasive wasn't chosen.
↓
Vaginal
Declining nationally. ABR recommends at least 3 on your GYN list. High examiner interest — defend your selection or defend its absence.
Examiner focus area
WHAT GOES WRONG

The 8 most common case list mistakes — and how PDI Med catches them.

Synthesized from the ABOG Certifying Examination Bulletin (July 2024, updated August 2025), America's Board Review archives (2024–2025), and physician experience from SDN and ABOG forums.

01
Missing uterine weight on hysterectomy cases Blocker

ABOG requires uterine weight in grams from the pathology report for every hysterectomy case — no exceptions. Physicians discover this missing field months after the operation when the chart is difficult to retrieve and pathology results may have been archived. ABOG rejects the case without it.

PDI Med Fires a blocker flag the moment you commit a hysterectomy without a uterine weight. Tells you where to find it: Results → Pathology → Final Diagnosis → "Uterus, X grams." Logged the same day, it's a 30-second fix.
02
Wrong Office case count — ABOG requires exactly 40 Blocker

Office must be exactly 40 cases submitted — not 38, not 42. If you submit more than 40, ABOG silently takes the top cases by their own internal ordering and does not tell you which cases were dropped or that your submitted count differs from what you intended. The physician walks in thinking they have 40 cases and may find the examiner referencing fewer than expected — without ever understanding why. Submitting fewer than 40 is an immediate blocker with no extension available.

PDI Med Tracks your full vault of office cases separately from your submission deck. Commit every office encounter — the vault holds all of it. When you're ready to submit, the deck builder surfaces your strongest 40 by score and lets you swap any case in or out. The export gate confirms exactly 40 are selected before generating the file. If over 40 are committed to the vault, PDI Med shows you which ones would be dropped under ABOG's ordering — so you choose, not them.
03
More than 2 cases per subcategory Blocker

Cases accumulate naturally — you see what you see. End up with 3 preeclampsia cases, 3 hysterectomies, 3 LEEPs. ABOG rejects the excess without notifying you which subcategory is over the limit or how many cases were dropped. There is no rejection notice with a specific reason. The physician submits believing they have 80 cases. ABOG counts 77 — and the physician enters the exam not knowing their OB section is short. This is the most consequential silent failure mode in the entire case list process.

PDI Med Commit everything — the third preeclampsia, the fourth LEEP. Each case takes about 30 seconds: paste the note, review what PDI Med parsed, confirm the subcategory is accurate, commit. That verification step is where your attention belongs — while the chart is still open and every field is recoverable. Once verified, PDI Med tracks the counts. When you're ready to submit, it applies the max-2 rule across your full vault and surfaces your two strongest cases per subcategory. You logged the patients. PDI Med built the deck.
04
Including normal deliveries in the OB section Blocker

Uncomplicated vaginal deliveries and routine repeat cesareans are explicitly ineligible for OB. New attendings frequently assume any delivery counts. Every OB case must document the specific complication — preeclampsia, shoulder dystocia, fetal distress, abruption, etc.

PDI Med The parser reads your note before the case enters your OB count. If it looks like a routine delivery — no complication documented — PDI Med catches it at the point of entry. Not at export. Not months later. You log it. We check it.
05
Missing gestational age at admission (not at delivery) Blocker

GA at admission is required — distinct from gestational age at delivery. This field is commonly omitted when logging and nearly impossible to retrieve retroactively from an 8-month-old operative or delivery note. It is a required ABOG field, not optional.

PDI Med The parser extracts GA at admission directly from your note and standardizes it to weeks + days. If it's absent, you know before the case is committed — while the chart is still open and findable. GA at admission is one of the fields that becomes nearly impossible to recover six months later. PDI Med surfaces it the same day as the encounter.
06
Vague procedure documentation inviting examiner pressure Warning

Cases documented as "c-section" or "hysterectomy" without specifics invite aggressive examiner follow-up on areas the physician may not be prepared to defend. The examiner reads exactly what you wrote. Vague entries signal incomplete reasoning — not safety. "Case construction is a painful process — the ABOG is very vague." [SDN]

PDI Med Flags vague procedure documentation and surfaces the examiner probes associated with that case type — so you know what you'll be asked before you finalize the entry.
07
Strategic coverage gaps — no urogyn, no vaginal hysterectomy Warning

Physicians collect what they happen to see in their practice. Without strategic awareness, they end up with no urogyn cases, no vaginal hysterectomy, no oncology management — all high-yield examiner topics. If those case types are absent, prepare to defend why with the cases you do have. [ABR Mar 2025]

PDI Med The intelligence dashboard flags missing high-yield categories against examiner probe frequency. You see the gaps before submission — not during the oral exam.
08
Procrastinating documentation until Q3 or Q4 Warning

Memory degrades. Required fields become impossible to retrieve from operative notes 6 months later. Physicians who batch-log in February face unrecoverable pace deficits and chart review weekends that don't actually recover what they've lost. Missing the July 31 deadline means waiting a full year.

PDI Med Paste your note, review what the parser extracted, confirm the fields are accurate — about 30 seconds, done same day as the encounter while the chart is still open. That deliberate review is what makes the commit reliable. Retroactive chart-pulling six months later doesn't recover what careful same-day verification would have caught.
CORRECTED

Common misconceptions — and what's actually true.

Myth "I only need to log ABOG-qualifying cases."
Reality The vault holds every encounter — not just board cases. Commit everything clinically significant and PDI Med will help you decide what generates the strongest defense. Gray zone cases, complicated presentations that don't fit a clean category, unusual clinical decisions — all of it belongs in your record. PDI Med's analysis is non-punitive by design. Think of it as your most trusted attending looking over your case list and saying: "let me show you what you actually have here."
Myth "I can batch-enter everything in Q4."
Reality Memory degrades. Required ABOG fields — GA at admission, uterine weight from pathology — become impossible to retrieve from 8-month-old notes. Documentation must happen within days of the encounter. Batch entry in Q4 produces incomplete entries, not complete ones.
Myth "The examiner will focus on the structured cases, not mine."
Reality 30 minutes of every 1-hour session is built from your specific submitted case list. The examiner reads your cases before you enter the room and selects which ones to probe. Every case you submitted is fair game — including the ones you documented vaguely.
Myth "Vague wording protects me from hard questions."
Reality Examiners specifically probe vague entries — because incomplete documentation signals incomplete reasoning. A well-documented difficult case is easier to defend than a poorly documented routine one. Document specifically.
Myth "Normal deliveries help my OB count."
Reality Uncomplicated vaginal deliveries and routine repeat cesareans are explicitly excluded from the OB section. ABOG rejects them, leaving your OB count below minimum. Every OB case must document the specific complication.
Myth "The oral exam is subjective — it comes down to luck."
Reality ABOG uses a structured scoring model with objective criteria. "As long as you don't sound like a dangerous physician, you will pass." [SDN] Preparation and documentation quality determine outcomes. The ~85% pass rate reflects that most prepared physicians pass.
PDI MED

What PDI Med builds for you — automatically.

Every feature below exists because a physician somewhere lost a year to a preventable mistake. PDI Med is the system that prevents it.

21 ABOG intelligence flags — all fire before submission
Missing uterine weight, wrong Office count, category max exceeded, normal delivery in OB, missing GA at admission — all caught the moment you commit. Zero blockers at the July 31 deadline.
Real-time pace model with hard deadline tracking
Monthly case targets (8 · 22 · 44 · 66 · 80+) vs. your actual committed count. Know by month 3 if you're on track. Live countdowns to board application and case list deadlines.
~30 seconds per case. Verified by you. Tracked by PDI Med.
Paste your signed clinical note. PDI Med extracts every ABOG-required field — section, category, diagnosis, procedures, GA, route, complications, EBL, nights. You review what was pulled and confirm it's accurate. That review step is the work, and it's the right work: done same-day while the chart is open, every field is still findable, and nothing has to be reconstructed from memory.
AI board examiner trained on your specific cases
Not generic board questions. The examiner probes your shoulder dystocia case, your accreta, your hysterectomy route selection — using the follow-up patterns real ABOG examiners use. Included. No question bank required.
Strategic coverage visibility — examiner focus vs. your list
The intelligence dashboard shows which high-yield examiner topics are absent from your case list — vaginal hysterectomy, urogyn, operative vaginal delivery — so you know where to focus collection before submission.
Encrypted vault — your clinical record survives hardware failure
AES-256-GCM encrypted. Physician-controlled keys. AWS HIPAA-eligible infrastructure. When your laptop dies — and eventually it will — your case log doesn't die with it. Every commit, every flag cleared, every note: preserved.
PHI stays in your vault. Intelligence travels de-identified.
Your vault holds your patients by name, as any clinical record should. Before anything contributes to collective intelligence, your note passes through five layers of de-identification and you verify the output in the preview panel. The AI receives clinical language only — diagnosis, procedures, vitals — without patient identity. Evidence spans in every response prove what the AI saw. The audit trail is yours to inspect.
What PDI Med delivers at the end of your collection year.
There is work — but it's the right work, at the right time. About 30 seconds per encounter: paste your note, review what PDI Med parsed, confirm the fields and subcategory look correct, commit. That review is deliberate and it matters — it's how you catch a missing GA at admission while the chart is still open, not six months later. PDI Med doesn't ask you to trust it blindly. You can see exactly what it extracted and verify it before anything is committed. Once it's verified: every subcategory count, every required field, every examiner coverage gap, every deadline — PDI Med handles all of it. At any point in your collection year, you can pull a fully audited, ABOG-compliant case list and know that 30 seconds per case earlier in the year has paid back hundreds of hours you won't spend scrambling at submission. No scramble. No surprises at the submission portal. The verification is yours. The compliance work is ours.
HONEST POSITIONING

Where PDI Med fits — and where it's going.

If you are collecting cases, FLS, EMIGS, and the qualifying exam are already behind you. Those are residency-era milestones. By the time you are an attending documenting your first clinical year, the prerequisites are done. What isn't done — and what nothing else adequately addresses — is everything below.

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Case log documentation, compliance, and export
Parser extracts ABOG fields from any signed clinical note. 21 intelligence flags catch every blocker before submission. ABOG-formatted, de-identified export generated when all flags clear. Nothing comparable exists.
Pace tracking and hard deadline management
Monthly case targets against your actual committed count. Live countdown to application and submission deadlines. Projected shortfall warnings before they become unrecoverable.
AI board examiner on your specific cases
The second 30 minutes of each oral session — built from your case list — is handled. The examiner probes your shoulder dystocia, your accreta, your hysterectomy route decision. Including the follow-up question. That is the question where boards are won or lost.
Office visit counting via care arc linking
Follow-up encounters link to the same patient arc automatically. The Office section's required visit count populates without manual tracking across months of clinic notes.
Collective intelligence
After 10 de-identified contributions, query how your cohort is handling operative delivery, vaginal hysterectomy, and gray zone management decisions. No individual data. No rankings. Pattern intelligence that exists nowhere else.
In development
Verbalization coaching
The board examiner will evolve beyond asking the right questions. The next layer is coaching how you answer — pacing, completeness, recognizing when the examiner is pushing you to the edge of your knowledge. Oral delivery is a trainable skill. It will be trainable here.
ACOG, SMFM, and OpenEvidence clinical content
PDI Med is pursuing integration with ACOG, SMFM, and OpenEvidence to bring governing body guidance directly into the platform. When a case flags a guideline currency issue, the updated bulletin will be one click away — not a separate library to navigate.
Human expert case list review — in-house consultation
PDI Med is building a roster of actively practicing board-certified OB/GYN physicians available for expert case list review as a separate consultation service. The compliance and structural work is already done by the platform. The human review focuses on strategic wording, case selection, and defense preparation — without leaving PDI Med.
Structured case library
The first 30 minutes of each oral session uses ABOG-written structured cases. A structured case library — organized around the categories PDI Med already tracks and the examiner probes already mapped — is the logical next layer of the board examiner module.
The one honest gap — today

The first 30 minutes of each oral board session uses ABOG-written structured cases — not your case list. Preparing for that half still requires a dedicated board review course: America's Board Review, ExamPro, or an equivalent. PDI Med covers the documentation layer, the compliance layer, and the case-specific prep layer completely. The structured case half is where a board review course remains essential today, and we say so plainly.

The structured case library is on the roadmap. Until it is built, the combination that produces the best outcome is PDI Med for everything case-list-related, paired with a structured case course for the remaining half.

THE CLAIM

PDI Med eliminates the documentation burden — hours per week reduced to minutes per case — ensures compliance, and prepares you for exactly half the oral board examination. That half is the one built from your cases. That half is the one most physicians are least prepared for.

The physician who walks into the exam with a bulletproof case list and a rehearsed defense of every case on it has done the work that PDI Med exists to make possible. Add a structured case course for the first half, and the preparation is complete. The documentation is handled. The compliance is handled. The case-specific intelligence is handled. What's left is studying — and that is a much better problem to have.

We don't replace the board review course.
We make everything you bring to it count.

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PDI Med monitors ABOG bulletins, case list requirements, and oral board updates on an ongoing basis. This page reflects the most current available requirements. Last reviewed: May 2026.