So perusing the MOCA section of the ABA website, it reads:
"The ABA defines clinically active as performing, teaching or supervising anesthesia in
the operating room or other anesthetizing areas, on average, at least one day per week
during 12 consecutive months over the previous three years. This activity must involve
patients having a varied degree of systemic disease and who are undergoing surgery or
diagnostic procedures requiring anesthetic care, and must be consistent with currentlyrelevant knowledge of pharmacology, physiology and medicine"
So I'm wondering how one is to interpret this? Is it simply 52 days (1d/wk for 12 months) in 3 years?
I can understand why its vague, so that chairmen can staff their research and administrators appropriately and fill in service needs.
Input from anybody familiar with this would be appreciated. I'm an early/mid career attending but I wanted to explore my options once late career starts hitting and I don't have to provide anesthesia service for all night C-Sections or Gunshot wounds.
Cheers.
"The ABA defines clinically active as performing, teaching or supervising anesthesia in
the operating room or other anesthetizing areas, on average, at least one day per week
during 12 consecutive months over the previous three years. This activity must involve
patients having a varied degree of systemic disease and who are undergoing surgery or
diagnostic procedures requiring anesthetic care, and must be consistent with currentlyrelevant knowledge of pharmacology, physiology and medicine"
So I'm wondering how one is to interpret this? Is it simply 52 days (1d/wk for 12 months) in 3 years?
I can understand why its vague, so that chairmen can staff their research and administrators appropriately and fill in service needs.
Input from anybody familiar with this would be appreciated. I'm an early/mid career attending but I wanted to explore my options once late career starts hitting and I don't have to provide anesthesia service for all night C-Sections or Gunshot wounds.
Cheers.
