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Asthma PIM
Physicians who make management decisions for patients with asthma:
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Pulmonologists
- General Internists with an outpatient practice
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Cancer Screening PIM
Physicians who make recommendations to patients concerning screening for common types of cancer:
- General Internists with an outpatient practice
- Geriatricians
- Medical Oncologists
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Care of Vulnerable Elderly PIM
Physicians who provide primary care to patients age 65 and older:
- Geriatricians
- General Internists with an outpatient practice
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Chronic Kidney Disease PIM
Physicians who make management decisions for patients with CKD:
- Nephrologists
- General Internists
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease PIM
Physicians who make management decisions for patients with COPD:
- Critical Care Physicians
- Geriatricians
- Pulmonologists
- General Internists
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Clinical Supervision PIM
Physicians who supervise any of the below listed trainees in either an in-patient or out-patient setting:
- Medical students
- Residents
- Fellows
*ABIM recommends that at least two trainees are observed and that multiple observations of the same trainee take place to see if any changes in their clinical skills occurred.
Colonoscopy PIM
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Communication - Primary Care PIM
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Communication - Recent Visit PIM
Any physician, especially those who wish to survey patients who have been seen for 12 months or less:
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Communication - Subspecialist PIM
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Communication with Referring Physicians PIM
Any physician who provides consultations to other physicians or other healthcare providers:
- All Subspecialists
- General Internists who provide substantial consultative care (e.g., pre-operative clinic)
*ABIM recommends this number of surveys to provide you with a reliable and accurate report of your practice. However, if this number is not feasible in your practice, ABIM will accept a minimum of 10 surveys.
**AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Completed Project PIM
- Physicians who receive sufficient clinical performance data from sources included in the ABIM Measures Library.
- Physicians who have completed QI projects in their practices within the past 24 months using nationally recognized quality measures.
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Diabetes PIM
This PIM provides you with a performance score that enables you to compare your performance with that of your peers. It is intended to help you identify areas of care that need improvement and will not affect your ABIM certification.
Data Collected For This Pim May Be Submitted To Bridges to Excellence (BTE) for possible recognition in their Diabetes Care Link program.
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Essentials of Quality Improvement PIM
Fulfills the Practice Performance requirement only for physicians who have no direct or indirect patient responsibility and no direct or indirect supervisory or administrative responsibility for patient care
- Physicians whose work is purely research-based
- Physicians who work for pharmaceutical companies
- Any other physician who has no responsibility for patients
**Not recorded through ABIM. Certificate can be printed when module has been completed. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TMfor successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Hepatitis C PIM
Physicians who make management decisions about Hepatitis C:
- Gastroenterologists
- Infectious Disease Specialists
- General Internists with a substantial Hepatitis C practice
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
HIV PIM
Physicians who make management decisions about HIV:
- Infectious Disease Specialists
- General Internists with a substantial HIV practice
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Hypertension PIM
This PIM provides you with a performance score that enables you to compare your performance with that of your peers. It is intended to help you identify areas of care that need improvement and will not affect your ABIM certification.
Data collected for this PIM may be submitted to Bridges to Excellence (BTE) for possible recognition in their Hypertension Care Link program.
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Osteoporosis PIM
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Preventive Cardiology PIM
Physicians who make management decisions regarding the prevention of primary or secondary coronary heart disease:
- Cardiologists
- General Internists with an outpatient practice
- Geriatricians
- Any subspecialty physician who serves as primary care physician for his/her patients
This PIM provides you with a performance score that enables you to compare your performance with that of your peers. It is intended to help you identify areas of care that need improvement and will not affect your ABIM certification.
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
Self-Directed PIM
- Physicians who receive sufficient clinical performance data from sources included in the ABIM Measures Library.
- Physicians who plan to begin a QI project in their practice using nationally recognized quality measures. Baseline data must be less than 12 months old.
*AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for successful completion of a PIM are only available to physicians who are enrolled and participating in the ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Physicians participating in other Boards' MOC programs are not eligible for CME credit.
ACC - A New ERA 2.0 (AFib)
The overall goal for A New ERA 2.0 is to optimize patient outcomes through improved management and treatment of AF based upon national quality standards derived from clinical guidelines and performance metrics. This effort will provide members of the cardiovascular care team, as well as AF patients, with enhanced knowledge and improved tools for implementing and sustaining strategies that lead to better outcomes. This activity is a PI-CME initiative based on the AMA's model of examining practice data, accessing education and quality improvement tools to help improve care of patients, and re-examining practice to determine if the steps taken have improved patient care. Participants who complete this PI-CME activity will receive 20 CME/CNE credits.
MOC Points: 20
ACC: Cardiology Practice Improvement Pathway (CPIP)
This program is now closed to new registrants. Participants seeking MOC credit for this activity, click "Get ABIM MOC Points" below.
MOC Points: 20
ACC: Imaging in FOCUS (Formation of Optimal Cardiovascular Imaging Utilization Strategies) Performance Improvement Activity (PIA)
The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) has developed a free, web-based tool to guide physicians through the collection of patient data on appropriate use of cardiac radionuclide imaging to identify performance gaps and ultimately implement a quality improvement plan for their practice.
MOC Points: 20
ACCP Performing EBUS-TBNA to Diagnose NSCLC
This program will assess your endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration performance in obtaining a specific diagnosis and obtaining adequate lymphocytes. It will provide educational interventions aimed at improving your performance and provide an interface for you to create a performance improvement action plan. Then, based on the educational interventions and implementation plan, you will be given the opportunity to reassess your performance in obtaining a specific diagnosis and obtaining adequate lymphocytes.
MOC Points: 20
ACCP Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis Performance Improvement Project
The ACCP and its collaborators have engaged in developing a performance improvement tool that addresses the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in moderate-to-high risk patient groups in the medical intensive care unit (MICU), under the care of the MICU team or in other medical monitored situations. This tool will provide participants with the ability to address barriers to the clinical implementation of NQF-endorsed performance measures.
This tool is currently only available to pre-registered participant sites.
MOC Points: 20
ACP Closing the Gap: Cardiovascular Risk
The American College of Physician's (ACP) Closing the Gap is a program aimed to help physicians and their staff develop strategies for improving the care they provide to their patients with cardiovascular disease.
MOC Points: 20
ACP Closing the Gap: Diabetes Care
The American College of Physician's (ACP) Closing the Gap is a program aimed to help physicians and their staff develop strategies for improving the care they provide to their patients with diabetes.
MOC Points: 20
ACP: Medical Home Builder: Manage Diabetes Mellitus and Immunize Adults Modules
ACP's Medical Home Builder is an interactive online tool designed to help practices improve patient care, organization, and workflow. It includes modules covering all aspects of patient-centered care along with a self-assessment tool that covers the 2011 NCQA, URAC, and Joint Commission standards. Participants in this activity can earn MOC for the "Immunize Adults" and "Manage Diabetes Mellitus" modules.
MOC Points: 20
ACPNet Depression Initiative
This activity allows participants to complete two sets of data abstractions, implement practice improvement in their office, participate in conference calls with QI coaches, and complete progress reports.
This program is now closed to new registrants. Participants seeking MOC credit for this activity, click "Get ABIM MOC Points" below.
MOC Points: 20
ACR AIM: Gout
The American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) Assess, Improve, Measure, or AIM, is a web-based practice improvement module focusing on gout.
MOC Points: 20
ACR AIM: Rheumatoid Arthritis
The American College of Rheumatology's (ACR) Assess, Improve, Measure, or AIM, is a web-based practice improvement module focusing on rheumatoid arthritis.
MOC Points: 20
AGA: Procedural Sedation/Patient Safety PIM
With the AGA Sedation/Patient Safety Practice Improvement Module (PIM), diplomates can evaluate their compliance with long established guidelines for assessing patients' anesthesia risk and monitoring intraprocedural sedation. This PIM gathers data to help diplomates identify and implement avenues for practice-based improvement in their management of procedural sedation. In particular, the AGA Sedation/Patient Safety PIM captures subjective patient data through a novel pre- and post-procedure patient experience card.
MOC Points: 20
ASN Dialysis Performance Improvement Module
The Dialysis Performance Improvement Module (DPIM) provides nephrologists with a way to apply quality measurements to their practice and then utilize the resulting data and individual/practice-wide improvement plan to take actions to improve patient care.
MOC Points: 20
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI): ASTHMA IQ
This web-based tool is designed to help physicians learn about the EPR-3 asthma guidelines and apply them to everyday practice, thereby improving the quality of care delivered to patients with asthma. This unique practice improvement module allows users to follow the same asthma patients longitudinally.
MOC Points: 20
American Thoracic Society-The PFT Improvement Series: Collaborating for Accelerated Change
Through case vignette assessment, patient survey, chart review, course work and one-on-one mentoring by experts, this activity seeks to improve performance on accurate administration and interpretation of pulmonary function tests. Patient to patient and physician to physician communication and the ability to improve the system in which the learner practices are also emphasized. While the series is designed for physicians only, three embedded courses and a Resource Tab are made available to the diplomate's health care team.
MOC Points: 20
Anthem Program of Excellence for Low Back Pain
The Anthem Program of Excellence for Low Back Pain is a quality improvement program that aims to improve the quality of care provided to patients with low back pain. Currently available to select physicians in select markets participating with Anthem health plans.
MOC Points: 20
Boston University School of Medicine: Adult Obesity PI Activity
This program is designed to help you improve your practice of diagnosing and managing adult patients who are overweight or obese. The program involves an audit of charts of your patients who are obese or overweight. You will be looking to see if you documented a Body Mass Index (BMI) for these patients, screened for comorbid conditions, and how you intervened to help these patients manage their weight. Once you receive baseline data, you will be asked to implement a plan to help improve your practice. Once you have implemented your plan and worked with it for a few weeks, you will be asked to audit another set of charts to assess the effectiveness of your plan. Please note this activity is sponsored by Boston University School of Medicine.
MOC Points: 20
CDC: STEADI Fall Prevention Quality Improvement Program
For Oregon, New York, and Colorado physicians ONLY.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control created the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries (STEADI)
Tool Kit for health care providers who treat older adults who are at risk of falling or who may have fallen in the past.
The STEADI Tool Kit is based on a simple algorithm (adapted from the American and British Geriatrics Societies’ Clinical Practice Guideline).
It includes basic information about falls, case studies, conversation starters, and standardized gait and balance assessment tests
(with instructional videos). In addition, there are educational handouts about fall prevention specifically designed for patients and
their friends and family. The CDC: STEADI Fall Prevention Quality Improvement Program uses the STEADI tool kit to help healthcare providers
prevent falls among older adult patients.
If you are interested in participating in the CDC: STEADI Fall Prevention Quality Improvement Program,
please contact your state health department representative: (1) Oregon- Lisa Shields, lisa.m.shields@state.or.us;
(2) New York- Kara Burke, kab20@health.state.ny.us; (3) Colorado- Aerin LaCerte, aerin.lacerte@state.co.us.
MOC Points: 20
CORRONA: PQRS Rheumatoid Arthritis Measures Bundle reporting
The CORRONA registry is a database and a data collection process that uses questionnaires to collect a standardized data set from RA patients and their physicians. The “PQRS Rheumatoid Arthritis Measures Bundle” reporting has received a 2-year initial approval for 2013 and 2014 from the ABIM to be part of its Approved Quality Improvement (AQI) Pathway program for Maintenance of Certification. Rheumatologists who are engaged in quality improvement through CORRONA’s AQI Pathway can now earn Maintenance of Certification (MOC) practice performance credit. The specific aims are to increase the use of the CORRONA data for quality improvement and RA disease management, and to monitor the impacts on measures compliance and disease outcomes by participating physicians. This activity is limited to rheumatologists who participate in CORRONA RA registry research. Please contact Season Swartz at sswartz@corrona.org for more information.
MOC Points: 20
CS2day (Cease Smoking Today) Online Performance Improvement Tool
CS2day (Cease Smoking Today) is a web-based performance improvement tool designed to help physicians identify areas for improvement in their knowledge, skills, attitudes and practice related to smoking cessation counseling, and to use this information to develop and implement an intervention.
MOC Points: 20
Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control: Aggressively Treating Cardiometabolic Risk Factors to Reduce Cardiovascular Events (AT GOAL)
PI-CME activity to improve performance in achieving evidenced-based control rates in cardiometabolic risk factors. Baseline data is collected, to determine current performance and over a one year period, educational interventions, intervention plans, and quarterly data collection with subsequent webinars lead to progressive improvement in control rates.
MOC Points: 20
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Accelerating the Rate of Improvement in CF Care: Learning and Leadership Collaborative
This activity allows physicians to analyze variations in process and outcome measures across the CFF-accredited care centers and fosters collaborative learning to spread potentially better practices across the entire care center network to accelerate improvement in CF care.
MOC Points: 20
Health Partners Medical Group & Clinics: Care Model Process - Diabetes and Preventive Care
This activity is open to Health Partners Medical Group physicians. For more information please contact Rae Ann Williams, M.D. at rae.a.williams@healthpartners.com.
MOC Points: 20
IPIP: Improving Performance in Practice
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) is a state-based, nationally led quality improvement initiative funded in large part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Its origins are in collaboration among the primary care specialty societies to help physicians improve care in the office practice setting.
MOC Points: 20
Joslin Diabetes Center: Advancing Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes
This web-based quality improvement tool can help physicians become more effective and efficient in the use of glycemic patterns to assess pathophysiology and to guide treatment selection and adjustments for their patients with type 2 diabetes. The activity includes initial self-assessment, selection of practice improvement interventions and resources developed by Joslin, and the collection of chart data to document success in initiating selected practice changes.
MOC Points: 20
Joslin Diabetes Center: Development of Office-based Systems of Care: Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
Development of Office-based Systems of Care: Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome is a web-based quality improvement tool designed to help physicians expand their knowledge of the intricacies of diabetes and its complications and to initiate effective diabetes therapies using office-based support materials and systems.
MOC Points: 20
Joslin Diabetes Center: Identification And Reduction Of Cardiometabolic Risk
This web-based quality improvement tool can be used to improve the systematic identification, preventive strategies and/or early treatments for at-risk patients. The activity includes initial self-assessment, selection of practice improvement interventions and resources developed by Joslin, and the collection of chart data to document success in initiating selected practice changes.
MOC Points: 20
Joslin Diabetes Center: Overcoming Obstacles to Insulin Therapy: Office-based Systems to Optimize Outcomes
Overcoming Obstacles to Insulin Therapy: Office-based Systems to Optimize Outcomes is a web-based quality improvement tool designed to help physicians assess their practice and performance, choose and implement appropriate educational and process interventions and analyze the changes in their practice and their patients’ health.
MOC Points: 20
Med-IQ Performance Improvement Strategies in Osteoporosis
Med-IQ's Performance Improvement Strategies in Osteoporosis is a performance improvement (PI) CME initiative designed to help you evaluate your clinical processes to improve your practice performance and optimize patient outcomes. This comprehensive PI initiative will provide you with practical guideline- and evidence-based strategies and tools you can implement to optimize outcomes for your patients with osteoporosis. Topics include identifying and assessing fracture risk, selecting risk-appropriate treatments, and implementing and monitoring comprehensive nonpharmacologic measures.
MOC Points: 20
Med-IQ and the Endocrine Society: Performance Improvement Strategies in Diabetes Care
Performance Improvement Strategies in Diabetes Care is a web-based quality improvement tool that helps physicians evaluate and improve their clinical practice methods according to board-specific competencies within three key areas of patient care, including general diabetes care, prevention and detection of diabetes-related complications, and glycemic control.
MOC Points: 20
NOW Coalition for Bipolar Disorder Performance Improvement CME
The NOW Performance Improvement CME activity enables practicing clinicians to assess their performance, knowledge, and practice infrastructure in their services for bipolar disorder and offers guidance as well as tools to bridge identified gaps. Using a HIPAA-compliant, confidential platform, clinicians can evaluate how well their practice diagnoses and manages bipolar disorder, and then be guided toward resources that help to overcome barriers and initiate systems-based solutions.
MOC Points: 20
PAVE PI CME (Partnership for Adult Vaccination and Education)
The overall objective of this PI CME activity is to improve vaccination screening and administration practices and rates in adults 19 years and older with regard to the following vaccines: Hepatitis A and B, HPV, Influenza, Meningococcal, PPSV, Td/Tdap, Varicella, and Zoster. Specifically, this includes the identification of all adult patients whom the ACIP recommends should currently receive an adult vaccination; offering those adults the appropriate vaccinations; appropriately counseling those adults regarding the risks and benefits of their recommended vaccinations; and finally, ensuring that those who are eligible are indeed vaccinated.
MOC Points: 20
PROTECT Adult Immunization PIM
PROTECT (Supporting Appropriate Immunizations Across the Age Spectrum) is a collaborative educational curriculum with the mission of improving clinician performance and patient health associated with immunizations across the age spectrum.
Nine partners, working in cooperation with a myriad of organizations, are working to address specific unmet needs and clinical gaps in the area of vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) by improving the performance of clinicians who are currently responsible for administering immunizations to applicable childhood, adolescent, and adult patient populations.
MOC Points: 20
PeerView Institute for Medical Education : Ameliorating Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting
In this activity, an expert in pain management discusses methods to identify and treat low back pain.
MOC Points: 20
PennCME/BestPractice Type 2 Diabetes Performance Improvement Module
PennCME/BestPractice Type 2 Diabetes Performance Improvement Module is a web-based quality improvement CME-certified tool available to clinicians nationwide and designed to help them continuously assess their practice, compare it to that of their peers and evidence-based quality indicators in the area of diabetes care, as well as to engage them in targeted educational interventions and suggested QI strategies with a goal of continuously improving practice and the care of their patients. This tool provides physicians and their practice teams with easy access to many quality educational resources and tools.
MOC Points: 20
Providence Medical Group Diabetes Care Improvement
Providence Medical Group providers will use an integrated disease registry and EMR to develop comprehensive QI plans for improving care for patients with diabetes. QI plans will be developed using the PDSA cycle and will incorporate a patient centered team care approach.
MOC Points: 20
Rocky Mountain Health Plans: Colorado Beacon Consortium Performance Improvement and Practice Transformation Program
This practice transformation activity is open to primary care physicians in seven counties in western Colorado (Delta, Montrose, Gunnison, Mesa, Garfield, Pitkin and Rio Blanco). For more information and to participate, please contact Brooke Thomas, Quality Improvement Advisor at brooke.thomas@coloradobeaconconsortium.org.
MOC Points: 20
SHM: Glycemic Control Mentored Implementation Program
SHM’s Glycemic Control Mentored Implementation (GCMI) Program aims to support sites in optimizing the care of inpatients with hyperglycemia and diabetes, and in preventing hypoglycemia. Each of the selected sites will receive a year of mentoring from national experts to help optimize glycemic control in their hospital. Participation in this program provides access to a comprehensive data registry that allows for performance tracking and benchmarking against comparable institutions. The range of topics addressed through this program includes: subcutaneous insulin protocols, transition from subcutaneous to infusion, infusion insulin, care coordination, improving follow up care, and having a good hypoglycemia management and prevention protocol.
MOC Points: 20
SHM: Project BOOST (Better Outcomes for Older Adults through Safe Transitions)
SHM’s BOOST Mentored Implementation Program provides yearlong mentoring and coaching from national experts to redesign discharge processes and improve patient safety. Participation in this program provides access to a comprehensive data registry that allows for performance tracking and benchmarking against comparable institutions. By improving hospital discharge processes, Project BOOST aims to reduce 30 day readmission rates for general medicine patients, improve patient satisfaction and H-CAHPS scores related to discharge, improve flow of information between hospital and outpatient providers and improve patient and family preparation for discharge.
MOC Points: 20
SHM: Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Collaborative (VTE PC) Mentored Implementation Program
SHM’s VTE-PC Mentored Implementation Program pairs mentors with VTE and quality improvement expertise with hospitalists who are leading local improvement projects. Participants receive practical assistance on topics central to designing, evaluating, implementing and sustaining a VTE prevention program. Instruction and support are offered through scheduled telephone calls that occur over a 15-18 month period. The program emphasizes integrating risk assessment into the work flow, layering QI interventions to maximize the proportion of patients receiving prophylaxis, and developing auditing strategies that promote rapid identification and mitigation of outliers. Participation in this program provides access to a data registry that allows for performance tracking and benchmarking against comparable institutions.
MOC Points: 20
The Endocrine Society: The Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules PIM
The aim of this QI activity is to improve the optimal assessment and evaluation of patients with thyroid nodular disease.
MOC Points: 20
The National Health Care Transition Center (NHCTC) of Center for Medical Home Improvement (CMHI) : Got Transition - Improving Transitions of Care between Pediatric and Adult Settings
Structures, processes, and measures for improving the transition of care from pediatric focused health care settings to adult focused health care settings. These materials are intended for implementation through a learning collaborative process or other similar supported quality improvement process that is approved by the activity director.
MOC Points: 20
The Pennsylvania State University: PA Spreading Primary Care Enhanced Delivery Infrastructure (PA SPREAD)
PA SPREAD is an activity that aims to support primary care practices in developing reliable population management systems and processes to improve the care of diabetes patients and eventually all patients. We are working with 19 practices from northwest and southcentral Pennsylvania in two 1-year regional learning collaboratives to adopt and implement the Patient Centered Medical Home and Chronic Care Models to improve diabetes quality. Each regional collaborative consists of 4 in-person learning sessions separated by action periods when practices are expected to test and implement changes using Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles, report clinical diabetes data monthly, track their progress on monthly narrative reports, and participate on monthly webinars to share best practices and lessons learned.
MOC Points: 20
UPenn COPD Performance Improvement Module
This CME-certified PI/QI module is designed to improve performance of primary care providers in effectively screening, diagnosing, and managing patients with COPD, with the goal of slowing the progressive loss of lung function and improving the patient's overall quality of life. This free web-based tool will guide physicians through patient chart data abstraction to help them analyze their practice, identify areas for improvement and compare performance with peers using a set of nationally recognized quality indicators. A series of recently developed educational interventions, best practice tools, and resources are integrated into this module.
MOC Points: 20
University of Missouri Center for Health Policy: Health Literacy
This program will assist clinicians to integrate health literacy principles and techniques to improve communication with patients and increase patient understanding. The program consists of a one-day workshop which couples on-site simulation training with one-on-one planning with a health literacy expert. Survey tools and a data collection plan are provided to assist in tracking improvements over a one year period. Ongoing technical assistance is provided by program staff to physicians throughout the duration of their participation.
MOC Points: 20
University of Oklahoma: Implementation of Chronic Kidney Disease Guidelines in Primary Care
Primary care clinicians in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Southern California will receive assistance with implementation of the National Kidney Foundation KDOQI Guidelines in the form of performance feedback, academic detailing, practical tools, quality improvement facilitation, and monthly meetings with other clinicians in the project. This assistance will be provided over a 6 month period of time by staff from regional practice-based research networks in each of the four participating states. Satisfactory completion will involve review of the performance reports and toolkit materials, attendance at one academic detailing session, collaboration with the practice facilitator to make positive changes in care processes, and attendance at monthly meetings with other participating clinicians over a period of 6 months.
MOC Points: 20
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health: Management of MRSA Hospitalized Patients a PI-CME Activity
This performance improvement activity is designed for physicians who treat and manage patients with post-surgical skin/soft tissue infections, catheter-related bloodstream infections, and/or ventilator associated pneumonia in a hospital setting, and want to be engaged in an activity to identify and reduce CA-MRSA occurrences.
MOC Points: 20
