Formerly the Maintenance of Certification Program (MOC)
The ABMGG Continuing Certification program is designed to engage diplomates in continuous professional development, assuring lifelong learning and competency in their specialty(ies). ABMGG Diplomates participating in the Continuing Certification program are expected to complete specified activities within a four-part framework, which includes:
Professionalism and Professional Standing (Part I)
Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (Part II)
Patient Safety Course
Assessment of Knowledge, Judgment, and Skills (Part III)
Improvement in Medical Practice (Part IV)
Over 33 Modules and more to come (Prenatal, Clinical, Cancer, Metabolic, Cytogenetics/Molecular
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ABMGG Certification Requirements
Improvement in Medical/Professional Practice (PartIV)
ABMGG’s Continuing of Certification program is designed for board-certified diplomates to participate in continuous professional development, assuring lifelong learning and competency in their specialty(ies).
All Member Boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) require their diplomates to actively participate in MOC. The ABMS Program for MOC involves ongoing measurement of six core competencies defined by ABMS and ACGME:
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Systems-based Practice
Medical Knowledge
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
These competencies are measured within a four-part framework:
Part I: Professionalism and Professional Standing
Part II: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment
Part III: Assessment of Knowledge, Judgment, and Skills
Part IV: Improvement in Medical Practice
For more information about the requirements for ABMG Diplomates, please click here .
Practice Improvement Modules
Practice Improvement modules are derived from accepted practice guidelines related to genetics patient care. Modules are available for pediatric genetics, adult genetics and prenatal/obstetric genetic care providers.
Process:
Educational Content – Review module, literature, and practice checklist
Charting – Each module requires the learner to review up to 5 patient charts and documenting certain findings according to the module questions.
Peer Comparison and Self-reflection Questions
Evaluation
Completion of these modules should be based on actual patient care as documented in your patient chart.
The process is not meant to be punitive but designed to help assess practice and facilitate practice improvement. The modules should be completed honestly based on documentation in the chart. An audit process may be implemented by ACMG to document compliance. Learners should keep track of the specific charts used to complete the practice module so that these charts could be reproduced in the setting of an audit.
Self-reflections should be meaningful and provide evidence that the diplomate has considered the practice guidelines contained in the exercise in the context of their own clinical practice. Answers to reflection questions should be 2-3 full sentences long and have thoughtful content. Answers to reflection questions will be anonymized and reviewed for content by the MOC committee. Reflections that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to the diplomate for revision. Revisions that do not meet guidelines may result in forfeiture of MOC credit for a given module and a request to repeat the module.
Do you think this module reflects best practice? Please elaborate whether you agree or disagree and state why.
Did you identify any gaps in your practice? If so, please elaborate.
If you identified gaps in your practice, what changes do you plan make to your practice based on this module?
What if any barriers do you foresee for implementing change if you identified gaps in your practice? For example, short staffing, time factors etc.
Available Modules
Cancer Genetics
Laboratory Genetics
Medical Genetics
Prenatal Genetics