The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published two new research papers (plus a related op-ed piece) investigating statistical relationships between ABIM's Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements and health care quality. On December 15, JAMA convened a follow-up webcast, featuring lead research authors Bradley M. Gray, PhD, [...]
If you are taking or have recently taken an ABIM Maintenance of Certification exam, you are probably spending a great deal of time thinking about ABIM results. Did you do enough to prepare? Did you study the right topics? How will your exam be scored? Is the process [...]
With so much controversy swirling around the changes in ABIM Maintenance of Certification, we thought it might be interesting and instructive to gain perspectives from so-called super certifiers — physicians who elect to maintain not just one but multiple subspecialty certifications throughout their clinical careers. Jack Ringler, MD, [...]
Earlier this week, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) issued a written response to all internal medicine physicians, addressing concerns about recent changes to Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements. ABIM acknowledged "a palpable level of anger among internists and internal medicine subspecialists" as well as a "sense [...]
I have been a board-certified gastroenterologist since 1977. Last fall, I decided to register for the internal medicine exam even though I was not required to do so at the time because I was "grandfathered in." A renewed interest and emphasis in general medicine had been spreading in [...]
On March 10, 2014, an online petition was launched requesting that the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recall recent changes to its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process. As of this writing, the petition had obtained 17,092 signatures, representing an average signing rate of approximately 160 signatures per [...]