American Board of Internal Medicine

Emerging Technologies

Building tools at the intersection of AI, clinical data, and physician assessment.

About

The ETD Lab is the Emerging Technologies team at ABIM. We explore how technology can improve medical assessment, support physicians, and shape the future of board certification — building everything from AI-powered evaluation tools to interactive data visualizations.

Projects

Live Tool

Competency Map

Interactive visualization of specialty competencies, milestones, and clinical skills across ABIM's certification framework.

compass.etd-lab.org
Live Tool

Bias Checker

Detects and surfaces potential bias in healthcare-related content and medical assessments.

bias-checker.etd-lab.org
Research

Model Behavior Analysis

ML pipeline for grading clinical soft skills — delivering difficult news, structured covariates, and competency rubrics.

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Internal

Puffin Bot

Custom Slack bot for the ETD team. Named after our mascot.

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The Team

JM

Jim McAdams

Team Lead

MN

Mohan Nagaraja

Innovation Program Leader

FA

Felix Agbavor

AI Engineer

DS

David Solot

I/O Psychologist

ZB

Zak Barbezat

Emerging Technologies

MW

Maddie Wesner

Co-op · I/O Psychologist

ST

Shawn Thomas

Co-op · AI/Software Engineering

SS

Shweta Sharma

Co-op · Data Scientist