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Letters |6 January 2015

Maintenance of Certification

Antoinette Spevetz, MD

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TO THE EDITOR:
I have been following the discussions about the changes in the ABIM MOC program that went into effect in January 2014. In contrast to Baron and Johnson's commentary (1) in support of these changes, Centor and colleagues' accompanying editorial (2) suggests that heuristics are at play, resulting in a disconnect between the intentions of the ABIM and the perceptions of the internal medicine community for whom MOC is one of many mounting stressors. Medicine and the external influences on physicians have certainly changed dramatically since the 1990s when I started to practice. Electronic health records, the rigors of documentation, and pay-for-performance measures that we may or may not agree with all eat up our professional as well as personal time.
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Spevetz A. Maintenance of Certification. Ann Intern Med. 2015;162:79. doi: 10.7326/L15-5040-6

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2015;162(1):79.

DOI: 10.7326/L15-5040-6

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