The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) exam can seem like one more stressor in your already busy life, but taking 30 minutes to review the ABIM tutorial and taking a practice exam in advance may greatly improve your efficiency and will probably decrease your overall stress on [...]
ABIM has made some changes to the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process recently, and physicians may be wondering how these changes will affect them. One significant change that diplomates should be aware of is the elimination of practice improvement modules. The goal of ABIM is to continuously refine [...]
By now, any clinician who took the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification Exam in October 2015 will have received his or her exam results. Based on ABIM’s typical time frame, results for the fall exam were made available by mid-January, which is also when [...]
Regardless of where one stands in the debate around commercially funded CME for physicians, there is no question that industry support for CME has been falling over the past seven years. Statistics tracked by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), show a dramatic decline in commercially [...]
ABIM is changing MOC and will not require Practice Assessment, Patient Voice, and Patient Safety in its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program through December 31, 2018. Earlier this year, ABIM announced that they would be suspending these requirements for 2 years, and it was not clear what the [...]
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program has made a lot of changes in the past few months, but it still requires that you earn some MOC points every 2 years — and those points are due at the end of December. To [...]