REQUIREMENTS TIMELINE AND FEES 2008
For Diplomates with Certificates Valid from 2008 to 2018
Effective January 1, 2010
Educational Plan:
The diplomate should develop a specific educational plan that relates his/her practice profile; local needs assessment; and self-assessment to a personal agenda for the acquisition of CME, self-assessment modules, and practice quality improvement activities during the MOC cycle.
CME (LL/SA CME):
- All must be in Category 1.
- 70 percent or more must be in diagnostic radiology or its subspecialties.
- 30 percent may be in clinically related general areas or relevant general topics such as risk assessment, ethics, processes of continuous quality improvement, methodologies of measurement outcomes, statistics, etc.
SAM (LL/SA SAM):
- Four or more Self-assessment Modules (SAMs) must be noninterpretive skills.
- Six or more SAMs must be in the specialty-specific or related areas.
- For each subspecialty certificate that a diplomate holds, they need to complete six SAMs that are subspecialty specific.
- SAM CME may count toward fulfilling the CME requirement and the SAM requirement.
- For the purpose of ABR-MOC, time-limited certificate holders are expected to start acquiring CME and SAMs in 2007. In cycles beginning in 2006 and later, there will be no prorating of requirements as the MOC program will be fully implemented.
| Yr | License | LL/ SA CME |
LL/ SA SAM |
Cognitive Exam |
PQI | Annual Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Learn about PQI process | Pay annual fee | |
| 2010 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Begin first project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2011 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Pay annual fee | ||
| 2012 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Complete first project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2013 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Begin second project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2014 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Pay annual fee | ||
| 2015 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Complete second project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2016 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Begin third project | Pay annual fee |
| 2017 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Pay annual fee | |
| 2018 1, 2 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Complete third project | Pay annual fee |
| Criteria at cycle end: | ||||||
| Valid license(s) | 250 CME searned | 20 SAMs done | Exam passed | Three projects completed | ||
| NOTES | Must be Category 1 CME credit. |
All SAMS count toward CME
≥ 4 SAMs = noninterpretive skills With subspecialty certificate(s): |
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1 Diplomates should keep documentation and enter CME and SAM participation into their password-protected personal databases at www.abronline.org .
2 If your Diagnostic Radiology Certification is time-limited, your MOC governing cycle dates are based on that certificate. If your Diagnostic Radiology Certification is valid for your lifetime, your MOC governing cycle dates are based on the earliest time-limited subspecialty certification that you received or the year that you enrolled in MOC.
NOTE:
CME credits and SAMs need not be done in the precise year specified in the table; however, a maximum of 50 CMEs and four SAMs may be applied toward your MOC requirements yearly.
PQI: Projects may be done as part of a practice group, department, institution, or radiology society, or by an individual. If you are participating in a project that is not individual, you must evaluate your own personal data as a part of your PQI participation.
Outliers in terms of participation may be contacted to produce documentation of participation.
Diplomates may change project topic if data analysis shows that time may be better spent in improving another area.
