ABP announces MOC recert test parameters

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Not yet posted to the ABP website but got this from PRODS. (see attachment)

1st cohort will be offered a 150 question "pilot examination" in summer 2013 which will cost $100 "refundable registration fee" and be given IN TAMPA.
Passing the pilot exam fulfills the 10 year recert for this cohort- (06'-07' diplomates)
Groups after that will pay $500 for the test
 

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So when it says test-takers get to choose their modules when they sit for the exam, do you know anything more about what modules they are offering? I'm just curious about whether there are separate modules for say, blood bank, microbiology, forensic pathology, etc?

I don't do any blood bank or micro, really, so it is important for me to know how much studying I would need to do, or if I can simply choose to not be tested over material that I don't practice.

Thanks.
 
Yes they released earlier a description of the modules. When you sit for the exam you select the modules you take. So yes you can steer clear of obscure CP things like micro that few of us deal with much on a regular basis. If I remember right they had planned a 'general' AP module and general CP module with optional additional modules; but they have not qualified specifics as yet for this group.
 
and be given IN TAMPA
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This is the part that blows. $100, $500, $1000...I don't really have a price point for the re-cert exam that would annoy me, but the sheer logisitics of taking off and traveling to and from Tampa makes me irate. There are monitored testing centers in every major city. Why ABP refuses to use those is beyond me.

I was talking to the olderish pathologist who came to recently inspect us for CAP about the MOC process and he couldn't believe that they would make us go back to Tampa.
 
Pingu said:
This is the part that blows. $100, $500, $1000...I don't really have a price point for the re-cert exam that would annoy me, but the sheer logisitics of taking off and traveling to and from Tampa makes me irate. There are monitored testing centers in every major city. Why ABP refuses to use those is beyond me.

I was talking to the olderish pathologist who came to recently inspect us for CAP about the MOC process and he couldn't believe that they would make us go back to Tampa.
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This is exactly my problem too why I put in all caps.
They want our asses in the seats in that hotel only to justify their existence there.
NO REASON why this couldnt be executed via a sylvan.
 
Kunu said:
Yes they released earlier a description of the modules. When you sit for the exam you select the modules you take. So yes you can steer clear of obscure CP things like micro that few of us deal with much on a regular basis. If I remember right they had planned a 'general' AP module and general CP module with optional additional modules; but they have not qualified specifics as yet for this group.
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Kunu,

Thank you so much. If it's not too much trouble, could you please point (link) me to these modules you said have been released?
 
I will be dying to know what happens to the people who fail the MOC exam yet are competent and well respected pathologists. I'm sure the boards will say, "just take it again." But how many people will it be? Will the exam the year after be easier? Will they just make the first exam so easy that no one who is sober will fail it?
 
What a farce, 150 questions is supposed to determine whether someone keeps their certification or not.
 
malchik said:
What a farce, 150 questions is supposed to determine whether someone keeps their certification or not.
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wat you want to drop 2 grand and spend 10 hours there weeding through 500 questions?
ABP is following suit behind other specialties that have been doing recert for some time and the less hassle the better IMO.
 
Hell no, I just want ABP and every other specialty to acknowledge the idiocy of using a test like this to say anything about someone's practice competence. If they decided on 150 questions, why not 15?
 
Kunu said:
This is exactly my problem too why I put in all caps.
They want our asses in the seats in that hotel only to justify their existence there.
NO REASON why this couldnt be executed via a sylvan.
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If there are going to be glass slides to evaluate as part of the exam, then I could see why it would have to be in Tampa. However, I cant imagine they will do that simply because everyone's exam will be different based on which modules they choose to take and it would probably be a big headache to try to give the right set of slides to each test taker based on what modules they were taking.

So yes, I dont understand either why they cant just use the Sylvan learning centers to administer the test.
 
lipomas said:
Incorrect. They want to ensure the integrity of the exam!

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Did you SEE the large plush office in tampa, with those nice fat leather chairs they have (I'm not joking- it was in the same building as the ABP exam)? That stuff don't buy itself. Plus they have to give themselves a nice travel stipend to fly to tampa to 'work'. I've been involved in the ASCP/CAP professional organizations- it's good to be spending other peoples money. And the best part is, if the ABP runs out of money, they just charge more!👍
 
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