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Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations
Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become increasingly important in medicine to ensure maintenance of competence throughout a physician’s career. This paper reviews current issues and challenges associated with MOC in medicine, including how to define medical competencies for practicing physicia...
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Canadian Medical Education Journal
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32215145 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.53065 |
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author | Cordovani, Ligia Wong, Anne Monteiro, Sandra |
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description | Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become increasingly important in medicine to ensure maintenance of competence throughout a physician’s career. This paper reviews current issues and challenges associated with MOC in medicine, including how to define medical competencies for practicing physicians, assessment, and how best to support physicians’ lifelong learning in a continuous and self-motivated way. We explore how the combination of self-monitoring, regular feedback, and peer support could improve self-assessment. Effective MOC programs are learner-driven, focused on every day practice, and incorporate educational principles. We discuss the importance of MOC to the physicians’ actual practice to improve acceptability. We review the benefits of tailored programs as well as decentralization of MOC programs to better characterize the physician’s practice. Lastly, we discuss the value of simulation-based medical education in MOC programs. Simulation-based education could be used to practice uncommon complications, life-threatening scenarios, non-technical skills improvement, and become proficient with new technology. As learners find simulation experiences educationally valuable, clinically relevant, and positive, simulation could be a way of increasing physicians’ participation in MOC programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-70824742020-03-25 Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations Cordovani, Ligia Wong, Anne Monteiro, Sandra Can Med Educ J Review Papers and Meta-Analyses Maintenance of certification (MOC) has become increasingly important in medicine to ensure maintenance of competence throughout a physician’s career. This paper reviews current issues and challenges associated with MOC in medicine, including how to define medical competencies for practicing physicians, assessment, and how best to support physicians’ lifelong learning in a continuous and self-motivated way. We explore how the combination of self-monitoring, regular feedback, and peer support could improve self-assessment. Effective MOC programs are learner-driven, focused on every day practice, and incorporate educational principles. We discuss the importance of MOC to the physicians’ actual practice to improve acceptability. We review the benefits of tailored programs as well as decentralization of MOC programs to better characterize the physician’s practice. Lastly, we discuss the value of simulation-based medical education in MOC programs. Simulation-based education could be used to practice uncommon complications, life-threatening scenarios, non-technical skills improvement, and become proficient with new technology. As learners find simulation experiences educationally valuable, clinically relevant, and positive, simulation could be a way of increasing physicians’ participation in MOC programs. Canadian Medical Education Journal 2020-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7082474/ /pubmed/32215145 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.53065 Text en © 2020 Cordovani, Wong, Monteiro; licensee Synergies Partners http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Journal Systems article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Papers and Meta-Analyses Cordovani, Ligia Wong, Anne Monteiro, Sandra Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title | Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title_full | Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title_fullStr | Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title_full_unstemmed | Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title_short | Maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
title_sort | maintenance of certification for practicing physicians: a review of current challenges and considerations |
topic | Review Papers and Meta-Analyses |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32215145 http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.53065 |
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