We’re almost three months into 2022. Have you started working toward meeting your Online Longitudinal Assessment (OLA) annual progress requirement?   While the system allows substantial flexibility regarding when diplomates should answer questions, anyone who hasn’t started participating yet this year or began and stopped should log in soon to avoid missing opportunities. Most participants…

As an ABR volunteer, Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD, is compelled to participate in Continuing Certification (MOC).   That doesn’t really matter to the medical physicist and professor of radiology and cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Despite his lifetime certification status, he says he would remain engaged even if the obligation didn’t…

Continuing Certification (Maintenance of Certification) uses an annual review in March to evaluate participation. Diplomates are required to attest once a year that they are meeting three of the four components: Professionalism and Professional Standing (Part 1); Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (Part 2); and Improvement in Medical Practice (Part 4). They should also review their…