In his editorial It’s time to rethink board recertification, Dr. Simoyan, an addiction medicine specialist, presents his case against recertification exams for practicing physicians. He argues that while initial certification exams make sense, recertification exams are not the best way to measure continuing competence.
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Several years ago ABCMO made a decision like this and transitioned away from requiring the NBEO/ACMO exam every 10 years for recertification and instead implimented a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program based on accumlating CE credits in Medical Optometry as a better way of ensuring continuing competency.