IBE
Mission  Statement
MISSION STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF ELECTRODIAGNOSIS

The International Board Of Electrodiagnosis (IBE) is a Nonprofit Corporation that exists for
and is dedicated to the following purposes:

    1.  To provide an outlet for expression and communication of professional opinions
    for the benefit and enhancement of the field of electrodiagnosis as they relate to
    health care, to best serve humankind.

    2.  To promote and foster the understanding and use of principles and techniques in
    the field of electrodiagnosis and support those principles, policies and practices that
    seek the attainment of the highest order of excellence in clinical skills directed at
    patient care by doctors of medicine and doctors of chiropractic.

    3.  To promote the highest standards of moral and ethical conduct amongst doctors
    performing electrodiagnostic examinations.

    4.  The pursuit of excellence in education especially as it concerns the promotion of
    post-graduate courses of study in electrodiagnosis.  

    5.  To disseminate scientific and scholarly information and educational materials
    relevant to electrodiagnosis through the establishment and maintenance an IBE
    journal (electronic and/or printed format) and website.

    6.  To encourage the development of standard practice parameters and patterns in
    the area of electrodiagnosis.  

    7.  Support for the quest of scientific knowledge by support for research in
    neuroscience and a high plane of competence and of clinical value to the literature of
    electrodiagnosis and neurophysiology.   

    8.  To outline the scope of the electrodiagnostician and to encourage the recognition
    of this scope of practice amongst the health care profession and in doctoral level
    primary care programs at colleges and universities.

    9.  Achieve and preserve the purposes of the IBE.

    10.  To encourage interest amongst medical and chiropractic doctors to enter this
    field of specialty.

    11.  To protect in every proper and reasonable way the professional welfare and
    interest of the members of the IBE.

    12.  To work and cooperate with medical schools, chiropractic colleges and
    universities, state licensing boards and other Federal, state and private agencies, or
    appropriate committees, councils and departments as necessary.

    13.  To enhance the quality of the field of electrodiagnosis through the voluntary
    certification process, by maintaining a certification board in electrodiagnosis.  The
    IBE shall serve to develop and conduct testing programs in the field of
    electrodiagnosis, identify those students who are qualified specialists in
    electrodiagnosis, and issue appropriate certifications and designations to those
    who successfully complete such programs.

The IBE shall:

  • Describe, in terms of knowledge and skills, a doctor with special expertise in
    evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with neurologic disorders, or who
    require electrodiagnostic assessment;

  • Set the standards for knowledge and skills required for certification using valid
    methodology;

  • Construct and administer comprehensive, psychometrically valid, unbiased,
    examinations designed to evaluate those skills and knowledge;

  • Monitor, evaluate and improve the standards and procedures of the certification
    process;

  • Set standards for the quality and scope of post-graduate training programs to
    ensure that their graduates will obtain necessary training credit toward certification;

  • Issue certificates and other forms of recognition to successful candidates;

  • Make available lists of diplomates who have fulfilled the requirements for certification;

  • Inform the public, other professions and other organizations of the purposes,
    activities and responsibilities of the IBE.