Maintenance of Certification (MOC) — Additional MOC Information
Education Plans: How Do You Create One? To help members prepare their MOC education plan, RSNA has an online tool called My CME Action Plan, which is available on the RSNA Web site.* This Internet-based tool is designed to help members identify their continuing medical education needs in their particular areas of practice.
To complete the plan, you must list your CME requirements, prioritize your educational needs, plan your future CME activities, and record your MOC-related activities for lifelong learning. To access My CME Action Plan, go to MOC Registry.
Action Plan Template The seven-page action plan template is divided into four sections: CME Requirements, Self-Assessment: CME History and Analysis, Planning for Future Activities, and My CME Action Plan. Once you complete the template, the end result is a written document that serves as the recommended education plan for MOC.
CME Requirements-The action plan initially asks you to list the CME requirements that apply to your practice and offers this list of organizations and programs to get you started:
- Maintenance of Certification, including subspecialty certificates
- Mammography Quality Standards Act (breast imaging)
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (vascular ultrasound)
- Stereotactic breast biopsy accreditation program
- Nuclear medicine/PET accreditation program
- MRI accreditation program
- CT accreditation program
- State licensure
- Hospital privileges.
Self-Assessment: CME History and Analysis— In the self-assessment section, you are asked to create a personal CME history and analysis by using a table that lists specific areas of imaging practice, including but not limited to breast, cardiac, emergency, genitourinary, head and neck, musculoskeletal, neuroradiology, oncologic imaging, radiation oncology, and vascular/interventional.
In the table, you are asked to indicate the estimated percentage of time you spend interpreting studies or doing procedures in each area of imaging practice and to indicate whether your practice emphasis will increase, decrease, or remain the same in each area.
The plan also asks you to generate a list of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM activities and any self-assessment modules completed within the past 3 years in each area of practice, as well as in areas such as professionalism, quality assurance, research, and safety. In addition, you are asked to estimate the proportion of time spent in clinical care, teaching, research, administration, informatics, consulting, volunteerism, and other activities.
Planning for Future Activities—In the section on planning for future activities, you are asked to compare your CME activities with your current and projected professional activities, your CME requirements, and any perceived gaps in your skills or knowledge and your learning needs. You are also asked to note how your practice might change over the next several years.
Guided by a series of questions, you will be able to create your own user profile of CME needs and get an idea of the direction you need to go for lifelong learning in coming years. You can also continually update your CME action plan.
My CME Action Plan—When you complete the questionnaire, you will have documented what your learning goals are, how you will obtain the knowledge you need, and what you will do in the future to enhance your education.
You can either print the template from the Internet and fill it out on paper for your personal records or fill the plan out electronically and store it on your personal computer.
Other Education Resources To help RSNA members meet MOC requirements, RSNA has the following educational resources and online tools:
- RSNA Annual Meeting—The RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is a rich source of CME/SAM credit through refresher courses, scientific sessions, and other educational offerings. In 2005, each physician could earn up to 83 CME credits. In addition, attendees were able to complete SAMs presented at the meeting.
- InteractED®—This online educational resource offers peer-reviewed CME programs based on refresher courses, plenary sessions, and focus sessions presented at the annual meeting, as well as education exhibits, cases of the day, and CME tests from RadioGraphics. InteractED
- Self-Assessment Modules—RSNA SAMs consist of peer-reviewed educational materials related to a wide variety of subspecialty areas, including breast radiology, chest radiology, emergency radiology, and pediatric radiology. All RSNA SAMs meet ABR's MOC requirements for self-assessment and are eligible for CME credit. Click on SAMs.
- Education Portal—The education portal of RSNA.org provides links to many useful resources for lifelong learning, including information on RSNA courses held outside the annual meeting.
- RSNA CME Credit Repository—RSNA automatically deposits CME and SAM credits earned through RSNA activities into the RSNA CME Credit Repository (RSNA.org/cme). As an RSNA member, you can also self-enter other earned CME credits to create a cumulative CME report or print a CME certificate for RSNA-awarded AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
- CME Gateway—RSNA and several other medical specialty organizations launched an online CME Gateway (www.CMEgateway.org). The CME Gateway allows you to view, print, and generate reports of CME credits earned from each of the sponsoring organizations to which you belong.
Useful Web Sites: For additional information on RSNA's MOC resources, call 1-800-272-2920.
