American Board of Medical Specialties
MOC Competencies and Criteria
For more information go to http://www.abms.org/Maintenance_of_Certification/MOC_competencies.aspx.
Through ABMS' Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process, board
certified physicians in 24 medical specialties build six core
competencies for quality patient care in their medical specialty. These
competencies were first adopted by the Accreditation Council for
Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and ABMS in 1999.
About the Six Core Competencies
Patient Care
Provide care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective treatment
for health problems and to promote health.
Medical Knowledge
Demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical,
clinical and cognate sciences and their application in patient care.
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Demonstrate skills that result in effective information exchange and
teaming with patients, their families and professional associates (e.g.
fostering a therapeutic relationship that is ethically sounds, uses
effective listening skills with non-verbal and verbal communication;
working as both a team member and at times as a leader).
Professionalism
Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities,
adherence to ethical principles and sensitivity to diverse patient
populations.
Systems-based Practice
Demonstrate awareness of and responsibility to larger context and
systems of healthcare. Be able to call on system resources to provide
optimal care (e.g. coordinating care across sites or serving as the
primary case manager when care involves multiple specialties,
professions or sites).
Practice-based
Learning and Improvement-Able to investigate and evaluate their patient
care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence and improve
their practice of medicine
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