---
title: What an AI agent reads on American Board of Thoracic Surgery · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/abts.org/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on American Board of Thoracic Surgery

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [abts.org](https://www.abts.org/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

9,646

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Home · language en. First 1,800 of 9,646 characters:

```
Home Skip to main content Loading American Board of Thoracic Surgery Cart Toggle search Toggle navigation Keyword Search Sign In About ABTSToggle History Leadership Thoracic Surgery HomeToggle Certification Congenital Continuing Certification Contact Training & Initial Certification Learn more » Congenital Cardiac Surgery Learn More » Certification Categories Learn more » Continuing Certification Learn More » ABTS Login Click Here » Board News ABTS held a successful Fall Board Meeting and congratulates newly elected Board Directors: Brian Ferguson Public Member Nashville, TN James Jaggers, MD Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO Aurora Pryor, MD Brown University Providence, RI Click here to view a complete list of ABTS Directors. Continuing Certification The 2026 process is now closed. ABTS will notify eligible Diplomates when applications open in the spring of 2027. Please be sure your email and mailing address are up to date in your ABTS profile. Be advised that ABTS recently revised several Continuing Certification policies and requirements, including how to renew a lapsed or expired certificate. Review the Continuing Certification Booklet of Information for more details. Email continuingcert@abts.org with any questions. Policy Change for Renewing a Lapsed or Expired Certificate Starting on January 1, 2026, Diplomates whose certification lapsed or expired and who seek to regain Board certification will be required to fulfill the list of requirements found here. End of CME Self-Reporting ABTS will retire self-reporting of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits, effective December 31, 2027. Beginning January 1, 2028, all CME credits used to meet Continuing Certification (CC) requirements must be reported directly by the accredited provider through the Accreditat
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```