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Maintenance of certification.

Robert S Rhodes1

  • 1The American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The American Surgeon
|February 20, 2007
PubMed
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Maintenance of Certification (MOC) enhances medical care quality and safety through continuous assessment. This program shifts recertification from a 10-year evaluation to ongoing professional development and practice performance improvement.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • Surgical Professionalism

Background:

  • Specialty board certification is evolving to address rising concerns about medical care quality and safety.
  • Current recertification processes involve a 10-year evaluation of professionalism, continuing medical education, and expertise.
  • There is a need for more frequent and comprehensive methods to ensure physician competence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the evolution of specialty board certification towards Maintenance of Certification (MOC).
  • To highlight the shift from periodic recertification to a continuous assessment model.
  • To emphasize the focus on practice performance and quality improvement within MOC.

Main Methods:

  • MOC integrates ongoing assessment of professionalism, continuing medical education, and medical expertise.

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  • A key component of MOC is the assessment of practice performance.
  • The MOC framework represents a philosophical shift towards improvement rather than judgment.

    • Main Results:

    • MOC transforms the traditional 10-year recertification into a continuous process.
    • Practice performance assessment is a new and integral part of MOC.
    • The program emphasizes voluntary efforts by surgeons for quality improvement.

    Conclusions:

    • MOC signifies a significant evolution in specialty board certification, focusing on continuous improvement.
    • The success of MOC will be measured by surgeons' ability to enhance the quality of care through voluntary efforts.
    • MOC represents a philosophical and requirement-based change aimed at improving medical practice.