American Board of Urology (ABU)

The American Board of Urology (ABU) is organized to encourage study, improve standards, and promote competency in the practice of Urology. The Board evaluates candidates who are duly licensed to practice medicine, and arranges and conducts examinations for the purpose of certification, subspecialty certification, recertification, and ongoing maintenance of certification. Certificates are conferred by the Board to candidates who successfully complete all requirements for a given certificate.

Mission :
The mission of the ABU is to act for the benefit of the public to ensure high quality, safe, efficient and ethical practice of Urology by establishing and maintaining standards of certification for urologists.

Purpose :
• To improve the quality of urologic care.
• To establish and maintain high standards of excellence in the specialty of Urology and its approved subspecialties.
• To encourage the study, and advance the cause of Urology.
• To evaluate specialists in Urology who apply for initial and continuous certification and urologists in approved subspecialties who apply for sub certification.
• To grant and issue to qualified physicians certificates of special knowledge and skills in Urology and approved subspecialties, and to suspend or revoke same.
• To serve the public, hospitals, medical schools, medical societies, and practitioners of medicine by furnishing lists of urologists whom it has certified to the American Board of Medical Specialties and the American Medical Association.