REQUIREMENTS TIMELINE 2002
For Diplomates with Certificates Valid from 2002 to 2012
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, the diplomate need to complete six SAMs that are subspecialty specific.
- SAM CME may count toward the CME requirement, as well as fulfilling 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.
The American Board of Radiology has recently added a provision to the current MOC participation policy regarding the number of years that can be "made up" in MOC requirements. This new provision allows you to complete and record triple (up to three years) the annual MOC requirement in one calendar year. For more information please see the Participation Policy Proviso.
| Yr | License | LL/SA CME |
1LL/SA SAM |
Cognitive Exam |
PQI | Annual Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Keep current and unrestricted | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
| 2004 | Keep current and unrestricted | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
| 2005 | Keep current and unrestricted | NA | NA | NA | NA | |
| 2006 | Keep current and unrestricted | Possible start | Possible start | NA | $342 | |
MOC Fully Implemented
| Yr | License | LL/SA CME |
1LL/SA SAM |
Cognitive Exam |
PQI | Annual Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Learn about PQI process | $342 | |
| 2008 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Attest to annual partici- pation | $342 | |
| 2009 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Attest to annual partici- pation | $342 | |
| 2010 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Register for exam; take if desired | Attest to annual partici- pation | $342 |
| 2011 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Register for exam; take if desired | Attest to annual partici- pation | $342 |
| 2012 | Keep current and unrestricted | Earn 25 CMEs | Do 2 SAMs | Must pass exam no later than year end | Attest to annual partici- pation | $342 |
| Criteria at cycle end: | ||||||
| Valid license(s) | 150 CMEs earned | 12 SAMs done | Exam passed | Projects completed | $2400 paid | |
Note: CME credits and SAMs need not be done in the precise year specified in the table; however, diplomates are advised that they should be spread as evenly as possible over the years of the MOC cycle, and not all earned in relatively short intervals, e.g., at the beginning of the cycle, at the end of the cycle, or just before exam registration.