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 [...]
NEJM Group, a division of the Massachusetts Medical Society dedicated to creating products that advance knowledge, practice, and learning for the global medical community, has named Alexander M. Djuricich, MD, as its new Education Editor. NEJM Group and its flagship product, the New England Journal of Medicine, along [...]
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 [...]
In the early part of November 2015, the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) selected a new Physician Assistant National Recertifying Exam (PANRE) model for further exploration and public comment. The NCCPA believes that the new “two-component” model, consisting of the usual secure exam plus a [...]
When most of us think of continuing medical education, we think of conferences, question banks, and journal articles. But social media is quickly gaining a foothold in this space. A new survey of 250 physicians, conducted by MedData Group, found that about half of all respondents were using [...]
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 [...]