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Letters |6 January 2015

Maintenance of Certification

Robert B. Copeland, MD

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TO THE EDITOR:
Centor and colleagues' editorial (1) and multiple ACP mailings, e-mails, and telephone calls have made me well aware that I am not alone in my concern about the ABIM's position on MOC. The current generic ABIM statement for those internists without time-limited certification is “certified, not meeting maintenance-of-certification requirements.” The ABIM does not know what those of us who consider professionalism and lifelong scholarship a critical personal obligation may be doing. I consider the statement an insult. Patients, employers, and insurers may well read it as “unfit to practice medicine”!
I have successfully taken 5 ABIM certification and recertification examinations without paying for spoon-feeding or subscribing to any ABIM program. At age 77, I continue to practice, study, teach, run a free clinic, and medically direct a complex regional hospital department. The maintenance of medical knowledge and diagnostic skills is very, very important to me.
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Copeland RB. Maintenance of Certification. Ann Intern Med. ;162:78. doi: 10.7326/L15-5040-4

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2015;162(1):78.

DOI: 10.7326/L15-5040-4

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