Maintaining certification through the ABMS Program for Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

ABMS Member Boards support physicians’ transition from training to practice through AMOC. The MOC program provides physicians a mechanism to maintain their certification through their engagement in continuous, specialty-specific learning, assessment, and improvement activities. The activities in MOC are based on the competency framework defined by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education and ABMS. They are aligned with the principles of the ABMS standards and address the changing performance expectations and the various settings, patients, and challenges physicians encounter in practice. The competencies include:

Subject experts at each specialty board and their related societies actively seek or develop tools and make available learning opportunities to support the self-assessment and performance improvement requirements of MOC. The activities reflect the evidence-based guidelines, national clinical and quality standards, and specialty best practices agreed upon by the Member Boards. They can include clinical databases and registries, peer evaluations, and practice audits that gauge the physician, system, and patient relationship.

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