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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Volume 74, no. 2 February 2018 Growing physician opposition to their Maintenance of Certification (MOC®) cash cow is apparently causing consternation at the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and its component boards. They need […]
