Upcoming Deadline - Sleep Medicine CC 2026 Exam Date
Choice of Dates
November 10, 2026
Application Available
December 1, 2025
ABPN Diplomates must apply and pay online. Diplomates from a board other than ABPN must apply through their respective board. This exam is not available in the combined format.
Application Deadline
August 1, 2026
Late Application Deadline
August 1, 2026
Scheduling Instructions Emailed by American Board of Internal Medicine
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Content Blueprint from American Board of Internal Medicine
For the subspecialty of Sleep Medicine (SM), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is the primary administrative Board; in other words, the ABIM develops and administers the assessments for SM. ABPN is responsible for credentialing applications for our diplomates, and for issuing the certifications for diplomates who qualify by passing the SM assessments. Please also note that the ABPN’s Article-Based Continuing Certification (ABCC) pathway is not available for SM since we are not the primary administrative Board for SM.
Important Information for All ABPN Diplomates Currently Certified in Sleep Medicine:
Per ABIM policy, all SM certified diplomates have the option of either taking the Continuing Certification (CC) exam every 10 years or participating in the ongoing Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA) to fulfill the assessment component of your continuing certification requirements for your SM certification.
All ABPN SM-certified diplomates who wish to participate in the LKA must begin participating in January 2026 to fulfill the assessment component of their continuing certification requirements for Sleep Medicine. ABIM will create accounts for all ABPN diplomates before December 1, 2025, and ABPN diplomates will be notified by ABIM via email on how to access their ABIM accounts to self-enroll in the LKA starting no earlier than December 1, 2025.
Once enrolled in the LKA, over the course of 5 years, you will be offered 600 questions and must open at least 500 to meet the LKA Participation Requirement. You will receive 30 questions at the start of each quarter and can answer them any time before the end of that quarter. You will have five minutes per question, and can answer one at a time, in batches, or whatever works best for you. Please note any unopened questions will not be scored and will expire at the end of the quarter, meaning you cannot come back to them later and they will count towards the maximum of 100 total questions you are allowed not to open over the 5-year LKA cycle.
If you do not enroll and begin the LKA in 2026, then you are committing to taking the SM CC exam in your SM certification’s ‘Assessment Due’ year, which is outlined in your individualized ABPN Physician Portal. Diplomates will need to apply through their ABPN Portal when the SM CC exam application becomes available the December before their Sleep Medicine Assessment Due year. Once your SM CC exam application is approved by ABPN, ABIM will email you within two weeks to set up an account and register for the SM CC exam.
If you have more questions about your Sleep Medicine certification please view the FAQs here or use visit the ABIM website for more information on the ABIM LKA format.
If you still have any other questions, please contact the ABPN at questions@abpn.org.
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