The American Board of Legal Medicine sets the standards for training and certifying competency in health care law for dual degreed physician attorneys, with the self-stated aim of promoting excellence in practice through its certification process.

The current American Board of Legal Medicine is a nonprofit organization incorporated in 1951 in the state of Delaware.

The Board has certified approximately 300 MD/JDs in legal medicine by means of computer-based or paper based examinations.

[3] The ABLM also furnishes study materials and courses in Legal Medicine and Medical Malpractice.

Authored by the two primary organizations in the field, American College of Legal Medicine & American Board of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine: Health Care Law and Medical Ethics, 8th Edition provides up-to-date information on topics surrounding professional medical liability, the business aspects of medical practice, and medicolegal and ethical issues.