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Summary of Board Actions
Each year, FSMB publishes electronically an Annual Summary of Board Actions, a compilation of disciplinary actions initiated by its 70 member boards. The FSMB's annual Summary of Board Actions report includes information about the context within which each medical board operates, including the standards of proof required of each board when prosecuting cases and the health care professions regulated by each board.

The Annual Summary is most useful to track trends in physician discipline within each state. Comparisons or rankings across states are not useful as states operate with different financial resources, levels of autonomy, legal constraints and staffing levels. In addition to disciplinary data and board information, the report includes the Composite Action Index. Designed by FSMB, the CAI is a tool that assists state medical boards in evaluating their performance over time. Computed since 1993, the CAI calculation is a weighted average of disciplinary actions taken against physicians practicing in a state, as well as all physicians licensed by that state. Actions affecting physicians' licenses, such as revocations and suspensions, are weighted more heavily in a state's CAI. Please note the validity of the CAI is limited in states that have total in-state physician licensee populations of less than 1,000. View Annual Summary reports from 1990 to 2009.

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