Dear Colleagues: Your voice is needed STAT to support two bills under consideration in the Rhode Island legislature to address improper Maintenance of Certification (MOC) mandates. Educating legislators about the need for S 301 and H 5247 is urgently needed. If adopted, these bills will help address MOC abuse and promote competition to American Board […]
Dear TxAAPS Members and Friends: Some hospitals are improperly circumventing the good bill enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2017 (SB 1148) intended to restrict hospitals and insurers from imposing counterproductive MOC requirements on physicians. This session Sen. Dawn Buckingham has introduced SB 1882 to help ensure hospitals follow the law. The bill was just […]
January 15, 2019 The following comments by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) are in response to the call for public input on the draft report from the Continuing Board Certification: Vision for the Future Commission released on December 11, 2018. If one were developing a product to sell in the open market, […]
UPDATE. Legislative session developments can happen quickly! Today HB 1967 moved from Subcommittee #1 to Subcommittee #2 of the House Commerce and Labor Committee. We have a new list of legislators for you to contact! Please use the updated link and information below to contact members of Subcommittee #2. Thank you! Speaking out makes a difference. […]
“It’s a MOCkery,” said one survey respondent. Maintenance of Certification (MOC) adds no clinical value to the practice of medicine, or to patients, say 65 percent of physicians surveyed by MDLinx, a medical news, information, and education website. The August 2018 survey of 515 physicians from a variety of medical specialties revealed that many physicians […]
AAPS is tracking MOC legislation as it moves though state legislatures. Visit our tracking document at https://goo.gl/fnS22T
To: Members of the ABMS Committee on Certification (COCERT) Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the proposal by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology to create a new subspecialty certification in “Complex Family Planning.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-profit membership organization of physicians and surgeons who […]
To: Members of the ABMS Committee on Certification (COCERT) Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the proposal by the American Board of Dermatology (ABD) to create a new subspecialty certification in Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (MDS). The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-profit membership organization of physicians and surgeons who […]
By Alieta Eck, MD – http://zhcenter.org Before 1990, American physicians who had completed 3 years or more of rigorous training in a specialty and passed an examination were awarded lifetime “board certification.” The only exception was the family practice board, which has always issued only time-limited certificates. After 1990, all member boards of the American […]
February 19, 2018 James C. Puffer, M. D. President and CEO American Board of Family Medicine 1648 Mc Grathiana Parkway, Suite 550 Lexington, KY 40511 Dear Dr. Puffer: As president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, I am writing to you about the damage done to the reputations of our members by your […]