title: The American Board of Emergency Medicine Maintenance of Certification Summit.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) convened a summit of stakeholders in Emergency Medicine (EM) to critically review the ABEM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The newly introduced American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) 2015 MOC Standards require that the ABMS Member Boards, including ABEM, "engage in continual quality monitoring and improvement of its Program for MOC …" ABEM sought to have the EM community participate in the quality improvement process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A review of the ABMS philosophy of MOC and requirements for MOC were presented, followed by an exposition of the ABEM MOC Program. Roundtable discussions included strengths of the program and opportunities for improvement; defining, teaching, and assessing professionalism; identifying and filling competency gaps; and enhancing relevancy and adding value to the ABEM MOC Program.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Several suggestions to improve the ABEM MOC Program were discussed. ABEM will consider these recommendations when developing its next revision of the ABEM MOC Program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia.
authors.forename: Francis L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Counselman
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Carius
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Royal Oak, Michigan.
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kowalenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Battaglioli
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Cherri
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hobgood
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Andy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Jagoda
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Emergency Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois.
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lovell
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, CTSI Scientific Review Committee (SRC), New York University, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Lillian
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oshva
authors.affiliation: John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth, Texas.
authors.forename: Anant
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Education Program, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shayne
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Jeffrey A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Tabas
authors.affiliation: American Board of Emergency Medicine.
authors.forename: Earl J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Reisdorff
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000592:standards; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D058996:Quality Improvement; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013044:Specialty Boards; D014481:United States
keywords: American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM); maintenance of certification; quality improvement