Year: 2014
Resolution Number: 25
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): J. Patricia Dhar, MD
Sponsor: J. Patricia Dhar, MD
On behalf of:
Committee: E (Science and Education Affairs)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That the AMA work with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and individual specialty boards to put a moratorium on obligatory Maintenance of Certification (MOC) until all of the following occur:1. Studies have shown the efficacy of MOC in physician care and patient outcomes.2. An assessment of the cost of time and money on the profession per year is completed.3. An assessment of the impact of MOC on worsening physician shortages by the adverse effect of tying the MOC program to state licenses (i.e., estimation of physicians that would leave or be removed from the physician pool of practicing doctors) is completed.
RESOLVED: That the AMA work with the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and individual specialty boards to put a moratorium on obligatory Maintenance of Certification (MOC) until all of the following occur:1. Studies have shown the efficacy of MOC in physician care and patient outcomes.2. An assessment of the cost of time and money on the profession per year is completed.3. An assessment of the impact of MOC on worsening physician shortages by the adverse effect of tying the MOC program to state licenses (i.e., estimation of physicians that would leave or be removed from the physician pool of practicing doctors) is completed.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Moratorium on Maintenance of Certification
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