{"id":496,"date":"2017-03-29T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/?page_id=496"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:01:54","slug":"written-exam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/certification-process\/hand-surgery\/written-exam\/","title":{"rendered":"Written Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AOBOS<\/strong> is pleased to announce a significant update to the eligibility timeline for subspecialty certification in <strong>Hand Surgery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What\u2019s new?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Candidates who have completed an ACGME-approved fellowship in Hand Surgery are now eligible to take the written subspecialty exam<strong> immediately following fellowship completion<\/strong>. This change is designed to provide greater flexibility and better alignment with training schedules.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note that subspecialty certification will only be granted after primary certification has been completed. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOBOS is pleased to announce a significant update to the eligibility timeline for subspecialty certification in Hand Surgery. What\u2019s new? Candidates who have completed an ACGME-approved fellowship in Hand Surgery are now eligible to take the written subspecialty exam immediately following fellowship completion. This change is designed to provide greater flexibility and better alignment with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/certification-process\/hand-surgery\/written-exam\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":478,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-specialty-written-exams.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-496","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions\/2435"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certification.osteopathic.org\/orthopedic-surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}