Original articleShaping the Future: Maintenance of Board Certification and Quality Care
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Moc
The goals of the ABR’s MOC program are to ensure that initial board certification and the maintenance of that certification will serve as indicators of quality and will be accepted as such by third-party payers, organizations that monitor the quality of care, and the public; support the quality improvement model; facilitate and document continuous professional development and patient care improvement; recognize the diversity of practice; foster self-direction related to diplomates’ practice and
Adult learning
Educational processes have traditionally consisted of a series of mileposts, that is, undergraduate education, medical school, clinical training, residency training, and often one or more fellowships. It was unusual for a student or teaching faculty member to link one milepost to the next. We now see the potential of connecting the threads via the 4 components, the 6 competencies, and time-limited board certification. Students, faculty members, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Past, present, future
In the early 1900s, the Flexner report [17] resulted in a dramatic improvement in medical school education [18]. Similarly, the creation of specialty boards established credentialing requirements and standards of care that had a significant impact on quality. The emphasis on the quality of health care, physician training, and board certification has a history of more than 100 years. In his presidential address to the Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1908, Derrick T. Vail, MD,
Reshaping the future
The maintenance of certification and quality provide a host of possibilities. The concept of board certification was inspired in 1934 by a desire to serve individual patients and the public, with a focus on education, skills, and quality of care. The ultimate translation of the process of certification is quality patient care. The quality of health care, including physician quality, was the focus in the beginning, 72 years ago, and remains the focus today. We must seize the opportunities to
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