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  • Medical Education
  • Radiology
  • Professional Certification

Background:

  • Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and Continuing Certification (CC) are crucial for ongoing professional development in radiology.
  • Understanding radiologist preferences is key to optimizing these certification programs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively assess radiologists' attitudes and preferences regarding Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and Continuing Certification (CC).

Main Methods:

  • A survey with a discrete choice or trade-off task was developed and administered to 17,305 American College of Radiology (ACR) members.
  • The survey assessed perceptions of MOC-CC components to understand underlying preferences and inform program optimization.
  • Respondent demographics and practice characteristics were analyzed for significant differences in MOC-CC perceptions.

Main Results:

  • 36% judged the existing MOC-CC program as excellent or very good, while 35% rated it as fair or poor.
  • Positive perceptions were more common among those grandfathered, in academic or urban practice, older, or with ABR roles.
  • Negative perceptions were more frequent among non-grandfathered, private practice, rural, or younger radiologists.

Conclusions:

  • Radiologist attitudes toward MOC vary significantly based on demographic and practice characteristics.
  • The current MOC-CC program features are widely viewed as unsatisfactory.
  • A simulation exercise identified an optimal feature set for improving MOC-CC acceptability.