Each year, the American Board of Internal Medicine® reviews and updates the content for the Medical Oncology Board Exam. Then, to help you focus your review, it issues an outline of the primary medical topics and their approximate percentages for a typical exam.
The 2025 Medical Oncology Certification Exams topics are:
| Percent of Exam | Medical Oncology Board Certification and Maintenance of Certification Board Exam Topics |
|---|---|
| 9.5% | Anticancer Therapeutics, Clinical Research Methodology, and Ethics |
| 11% | Palliative Care, Survivorship, and Communication |
| 2% | Genetics, Genomics, and Tumor Biology |
| 14% | Hematologic Neoplasms |
| 11% | Thoracic Cancer |
| 13% | Breast Cancer |
| 12% | Genitourinary Cancer |
| 4% | Gynecologic Cancer |
| 13.5% | Gastrointestinal Cancer |
| 6% | Skin Cancer, Sarcomas, and Unknown Primary Site |
| 4% | Head, Neck, Thyroid, and Central Nervous System Malignancies |
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