ABIM and ACCME Announce Collaboration in Support of Physician Lifelong Learning

  On August 12, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) announced a collaboration to support physicians who are engaged in lifelong learning by enabling them to use those activities to satisfy requirements for ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. “This collaboration will expand the options available to physicians to receive MOC credit and will enable continuing medical education (CME) providers to offer more lifelong learning options with MOC credit to internists and subspecialists,” according to a new press release from ACCME and ABIM.  This also means a more streamlined process for accredited CME providers—ABIM will no longer require them to submit applications for activity approval and peer review to ABIM. Instead, accredited CME providers will be able to use one unified shared system to record information about CME and ABIM MOC activities. Importantly, this system will help lower the burden on CME providers who wish to register activities for MOC credit.  “All accredited CME providers in the ACCME system already use the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) to enter data about each of their CME activities,” ACCME states. “With this collaboration, CME providers will also be able to use PARS to register activities for ABIM MOC. As part of this registration process, providers can attest to complianc...
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