title: Implementation of a Professional Society Core Curriculum and Integrated Maintenance of Certification Program.
abstract: Medical professional societies exist to foster collaboration, guide career development, and provide continuing medical education opportunities. Maintenance of certification is a process by which physicians complete formal educational activities approved by certifying organizations. The American Thoracic Society (ATS) established an innovative maintenance of certification program in 2012 as a means to formalize and expand continuing medical education offerings. This program is unique as it includes explicit opportunities for collaboration and career development in addition to providing continuing medical education and maintenance of certification credit to society members. In describing the development of this program referred to as the "Core Curriculum," the authors highlight the ATS process for content design, stages of curriculum development, and outcomes data with an eye toward assisting other societies that seek to program similar content. The curriculum development process described is generalizable and positively influences individual practitioners and professional societies in general, and as a result, provides a useful model for other professional societies to follow.
authors.affiliation: 1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
authors.forename: W Graham
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Carlos
authors.affiliation: 2 Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: Jason T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Poston
authors.affiliation: 3 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Gaetane C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Michaud
authors.affiliation: 4 Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Dela Cruz
authors.affiliation: 5 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Luks
authors.affiliation: 6 Division of Respiratory Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.affiliation: 7 Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors.forename: Paul E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.affiliation: 8 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Jakob I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: McSparron
authors.affiliation: 8 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.affiliation: 9 Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Jay S
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5574-4662
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Balachandran
authors.affiliation: 10 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
authors.forename: Tisha S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 11 American Thoracic Society, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Eileen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Larsson
authors.affiliation: 11 American Thoracic Society, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siegel-Gasiewski
authors.affiliation: 11 American Thoracic Society, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kantz
authors.affiliation: 12 Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado; and.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: 13 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Carey C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Thomson
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D003422:Critical Care; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000193:education*; D056508:Sleep Medicine Specialty / Q000193:education*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: certification; education; training