Are you serious? Weekly online quizzes? What do they think this is, the first year of nursing school?
Actually, I like this.
If the purpose of MOCA is to spur continuous improvement with minimally intrusive system that monitors that improvement ... well, if I was to design such a system, I'd
- put it online
- let people use it at their convenience
- make the content a mixture of basic topics and new developments
- have a non-punitive no-fail assessment mechanism (questions) that would then allow the system to customize future content presented to that individual based on areas of weakness
That would be minimally intrusive, minimally inconvenient, and probably actually useful to me. This is, more or less, exactly what the ABA is doing with this piece of MOCA. So, I'm happy to see this change.
What strikes me as ridiculous is that they've magically come up with $210 per year as the cost of this thing that replaces a $2,100 formal exam at a 3rd party test center every 10 years.
One of the primary complaints and criticisms of MOCA from the beginning is the absurd cost of it all. Everything from the slimy ABA/ASA kickback scheme that required stupidly-expensive CME purchases from ASA (ooooh, but they'll discount it a little bit if you pay $100s/year to be an ASA member) to the $2100 MOCA exam to the $multi-thousand costs involved with travel and a day at an ABA-approved simulator center. It was a bunch of **** with no actual value to any of us.
So yeah, this is an improvement.