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REQUIREMENTS TIMELINE 2006
For Diplomates with Certificates Valid from 2006 to 2016

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 needs 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.

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Yr	License	LL/SA CME	1LL/SA SAM	Cognitive Exam	PQI	Annual Fee
2007	Learn about PQI process	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Learn about PQI process	$280
2008	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2009	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2010	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2011	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2012	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2013	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs		Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2014	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs	Register for exam; take if desired	Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2015	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs	Register for exam; take if desired	Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
2016	Keep current and unrestricted	Earn 25 CMEs	Do 2 SAMs	Must pass exam no later than year end	Attest to annual partici- pation	$280
Criteria at cycle end:
	Valid license(s)	250 CMEs earned	20 SAMs done	Exam passed	Projects completed	$2800 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.