Continuing Certification (CC) Program
Continuing Certification (CC) Program
What is Continuing Certification (CC)?
ABMS Continuing Certification (CC) is a requirement of board certified diplomats without lifetime certification.
Specific requirements vary from board to board, and are routinely updated—check your board’s requirements often.
CC Parts
- Professional Standing and Conduct - license in good standing
- Lifelong learning (CME) -this is different from state licensure CME amount
- Improving Health and Healthcare (IHHC) - typically quality improvement or performance improvement projects
(For more information on ABMS and Continuing Certification Standards: https://www.abms.org/board-certification/board-certification-standards/standards-for-continuing-certification/)
UUCME can help with some CC Requirements
CME with CC:
UUCME currently provides CC credit for boards aligned with ACCME:
- American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS)
- American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS)
- American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
- American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
- American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ABPMR)
- American Board of Surgery (ABS)
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
We offer many options for CC through our Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) and courses. Check the CME statements for your activity to see if it is offering CC. (Planners of activities must include CC planning in the activity before the activity starts.)
Please email our MOC@hsc.utah.edu to get started with earning CC credit.
Improving Health and Healthcare (IHHC) credits:
UUCME is an American Board of Medical Specialty (ABMS) Portfolio Sponsor.
Participating ABMS Member Boards and the NCCPA accept ABMS Portfolio Program-approved activities as meeting their requirements for continuing certification (MOC) credit.
The ABMS Member Boards involved in the ABMS Portfolio Program include:
- American Board of Anesthesiology
- American Board of Dermatology
- American Board of Emergency Medicine
- American Board of Family Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
- American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- American Board of Ophthalmology
- American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
- American Board of Pathology
- American Board of Pediatrics
- American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- American Board of Radiology
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
- American Board of Urology
- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Multiple boards can be submitted to for a single project and we encourage multidisciplinary projects.
Performance Improvement (PI CME) is also possible for some QI/PIP projects if our office is notified of the project early enough in the process.
PI/CME involves a long-term, three-stage process by which a physician or group of physicians learn about specific performance measures, assess their practice using the selected performance measures, implement interventions to improve performance related to these measures over a useful interval of time and then reassess their practice using the same performance measures. PI/CME can award up to up to 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and may qualify for satisfying certain specialty board maintenance of certification requirements.
- Stage A: Learning from current practice performance assessment
- Stage B: Learning from the application of PI to patient care
- Stage C: Learning from the evaluation of the PI/CME effort
If you have a project, or would like to develop a project please email us at MOC@hsc.utah.edu to start the QI Project process.