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Discussion of Changes to ABIM Certification and MOC Here is the short story: Key recommendations from the report include: Change the MOC exam. The Task Force recommends replacing the 10-year MOC exam with more meaningful, less burdensome assessments. Focus assessments on cognitive and technical skills. Assessment of cognitive skills assures the public that physicians are staying current with the clinical knowledge relevant to patient care. Assessment of technical skills ensures that physicians can apply that knowledge to adequately perform the technical procedures appropriate to the discipline. Recognize specialization. The Task Force recommends exploring the need for certification in specialized areas, without the requirement to maintain underlying certificates, while being transparent about specialization to the public. “The Assessment 2020 Task Force members provided useful insights and recommendations that will be instrumental as we reshape certification to meet physicians’ and society’s changing needs,” said Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, Chair of the ABIM Board of Directors. “We now need to hear constructive feedback from the internal medicine community on these recommendations, begin to determine their feasibility and develop implementation plans where needed.” Recommendation #1 harkens the Anesthesiology Board change mentioned two days ago. Recommendation #2 recognizes that we can think rather than memorize, and that if we do procedures that we can...
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