The American Board of Internal Medicine has launched a study to determine the feasibility of allowing access to online resources for a portion of the maintenance of certification assessments.
“We are seeking physicians who have passed the Internal Medicine Certification exam or have taken the Internal Medicine MOC exam within the last 5 years to participate,” Dr. Richard J. Baron, ABIM president and CEO, said in a March 22 blog post on the organization’s website.
Dr. Richard J. Baron
Offering an open-book portion of the MOC assessment was one of the recommendations on improving the MOC process made in a final report from the Assessment 2020 Task Force earlier this year.
Dr. Baron noted that physicians have been saying that allowing access to online resources “would be truer to a physician’s everyday experiences.”
He also noted that in April, the ABIM board of directors and council “will be meeting jointly to consider physician-guided recommendations about the best options for updating the MOC assessment process,” during which a timetable to pilot, test, and implement changes will be refined.