Beginning in 2018, physicians will be able to access UpToDate® - an online, evidence-based clinical decision support resource - during American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) assessments.
UpToDate will be the first online resource available during traditional MOC exams physicians take every 10 years, as well as ABIM's new, shorter MOC assessment option - called Knowledge Check-Ins - that physicians can take every two years from their home or workplace.
Physicians taking either of these assessment options will be able to access UpToDate in real time during the assessment, better reflecting how they look up clinical guidelines and evidence in practice.
More than 800 doctors participated in a separate research study to help ABIM determine the feasibility and impact of incorporating electronic resources into traditional MOC exams. The results indicated that having access to resources reduced physicians' anxiety about the exam and that the open-book option actually enhanced the exam's capacity to differentiate between high and low performances. In addition, 90 percent of physicians who participated in a survey following the study indicated that they use UpToDate in practice.
UpToDate will first be incorporated into ABIM's Internal Medicine and Nephrology Knowledge Check-Ins and Internal Medicine and Nephrology traditional MOC exams in 2018. Access will continue to expand to other specialty assessments through 2018 and 2019. In the future, ABIM will continue to explore incorporating additional resources into MOC assessments.
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