REQUIREMENTS TIMELINE 2010
For Diplomates with Certificates Valid from 2010 to 2020
Effective January 1, 2011
Educational Plan:
The diplomate should develop a specific educational plan which 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% or more must be in diagnostic radiology or its subspecialties
SAM (LL/SA SAM):
- Four or more SAMs must be non-interpretive 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
- Self-assessment Module (SAM) CME may count toward fulfilling the CME requirement and the SAM requirement.
| Yr | License | LL/ SA CME |
LL/ SA SAM |
Cognitive Exam |
PQI 1 | Annual Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Learn about PQI process | Pay annual fee | |
| 2012 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Begin first project |
Pay annual fee | |
| 2013 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Pay annual fee | ||
| 2014 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Complete first project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2015 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Begin second project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2016 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Pay annual fee | ||
| 2017 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Complete second project | Pay annual fee | |
| 2018 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Begin third project | Pay annual fee |
| 2019 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Pay annual fee | |
| 2020 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CME | Do 2 SAMs | Register and take exam if desired | Complete third project | Pay annual fee |
| Criteria at cycle end: | ||||||
| Valid license(s) | 250 CME earned | 20 SAMs done | Exam passed | Three project(s) completed | Fee paid | |
| NOTES | Must be Cat 1 CME credit |
All SAMS count toward CME
≥ 4 SAMs = non-interpretive skills With subspecialty certificate(s): |
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1 Diplomates should keep documentation and enter CME and SAM participation into their password-protected database on www.abronline.org
NOTE:
CME credits and SAMs need not be done in the precise year specified in the table, however, a maximum of 50 CME 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 society as well as by an individual. If you are participating in a project that is not individual, it is required that you 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.
