MOC in Neurology

[NeuroDocDO]

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Has anyone looked over the requirements for the MOC. It seems to be extremely time consuming and confusing. For those who work as neurohospitalists and do not have an outpatient clinic, how do you forsee completing the PIP units. It used to be that all you needed to do was to take a written exam and now the recertification process appears to be extremely laborious and filled with red tape.

 

[bustbones26]

Has anyone looked over the requirements for the MOC. It seems to be extremely time consuming and confusing. For those who work as neurohospitalists and do not have an outpatient clinic, how do you forsee completing the PIP units. It used to be that all you needed to do was to take a written exam and now the recertification process appears to be extremely laborious and filled with red tape.

As costly as if might be, subscribe to the continuum and do those test at the end of the books (which they give you the answers to). Claim all 10 hours of credit and do all of the "extra stuff" in there as well.

Pay the price for those MOC exams on occasion.
Go to an AAN meeting at least once every three years.

What this translates into is you spending money but that's life. Its more than the AAN actually. We have to deal with rules from the state, AAN, AMA/AOA etc. It all becomes a major pain!!

You have to self-report your activities at your ABPN profile and only a small number are audited on what they report.

Again, it all about you shelling out cash! All of the above aforementioned methods that I mentioned have answers to the tests so you sort of buy your MOC over time. Sad but true.

 

[danielmd06]

Again, it all about you shelling out cash! All of the above aforementioned methods that I mentioned have answers to the tests so you sort of buy your MOC over time. Sad but true.

It's just a scam to make money.

"Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle."

 

[typhoonegator]

It also pays for the salaries of a bunch of people who spend their days making spreadsheets and powerpoints of the compliance rates.

My guess and hope is that most hospitals/departments will bring their peer review and QI programs into line with those of the MOC, so at least that part of it will be taken care of. Then it becomes mostly an issue of CMEs, which state boards already make you keep track of.

I take care of no outpatients, and the scope of my subspecialty isn't even under the purview of the ABPN, so I can't even begin to comprehend how I'm supposed to ensure that I'm in line with their "standards of care".