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.
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.
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.
- Gestational age at admission (not at delivery)
- Delivery type
- Complication documented
- Nights in hospital
- 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)
- Number of office visits for this case
- Primary diagnosis
- Management plan summary
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 case list submission deadline means waiting a full year to sit for boards.
The complete 2026 category structure.
ABOG publishes the authoritative category list with each bulletin. PDI Med enforces this structure in the platform — every case you commit is mapped to one of these categories. Max 2 per category. Uncategorized entries do not count toward minimums.
Obstetrics (OB)
37 categories · min 20Gynecology (GYN)
24 categories · min 20Office
40 categories · exactly 40ABOG publishes the Specialty Certifying Examination Bulletin each July–August for the following examination cycle. The 2026 bulletin was stable relative to 2025 — the primary structural change was the addition of the FLS/EMIGS eligibility gate for 2020+ graduates. When the 2027 bulletin publishes, PDI Med will diff the category lists, update the platform, and publish a changelog here.
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.
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]
The 8 most common case list mistakes — and how PDI Med catches them.
Synthesized from the ABOG Certifying Examination Bulletin (2026 edition), America's Board Review archives (2024–2025), and physician experience from SDN and ABOG forums.
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.
Office must be exactly 40 cases. Not 38 — not 42. Physicians consistently over- or under-submit here, discovering the error during the export attempt in the days before the December deadline.
Cases accumulate naturally — you see what you see. End up with 3 preeclampsia cases, 3 hysterectomies, 3 LEEPs. ABOG rejects the excess cases without specific notification explaining which subcategory is over limit. The physician submits thinking they have 80 cases. ABOG counts 77.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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 December means waiting a full year.
Common misconceptions — and what's actually true.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your collection year starts July 1.
You should already be set up.
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PDI Med monitors ABOG bulletins, case list requirements, and oral board updates on an ongoing basis. This page reflects the 2026 ABOG bulletin. Last reviewed: June 2026.