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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 - Subspecialists 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.
- Physician 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.
- Physician 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 – Evidence-Based Stroke Reduction in Atrial Fibrillation
A New ERA is a quality improvement program designed to help physicians manage patients with Atrial Fibrillation.
MOC Points: 20
ACC: Keeping PACE – Patient-Centered Acute Coronary Syndrome Care Education
Keeping PACE is a quality improvement program designed to help physicians manage patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.
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: Cardiology Practice Improvement Pathway (CPIP)
The Cardiology Practice Improvement Pathway (CPIP) is a practice-level performance improvement program designed specifically to enhance and instill quality in cardiovascular practice. CPIP provides a platform for practices to self-evaluate against a comprehensive measure set designed to support the delivery of cardiovascular care that achieves the six national quality aims identified by the Institute of Medicine (IOM): safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered (STEEEP).
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 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 cardiovascular disease.
MOC Points: 20
ACP: 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.
MOC Points: 20
ACPNet Adult Immunization Project
The American College of Physician's (ACPNet) Adult Immunization Project is a program aimed to help physicians and their staff develop strategies for improving immunization in their practice.
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
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
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
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
NCQA: Pediatric ADHD Performance Improvement (PI) CME Program*
NCQA's Pediatric ADHD Performance Improvement-CME activity enables physicians with an active ADHD caseload to assess the care they are providing to children ages 6-12 diagnosed with ADHD. Using a HIPAA-compliant, confidential platform online, providers can evaluate how well their practice manages youth with ADHD and be guided toward resources that can help them overcome common barriers to ADHD treatment and improve care.
*This program is intended for use by Adolescent Medicine and/or Medicine-Pediatrics physicians
MOC Points: 20
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute: HIVQUAL-US
HIVQUAL-US is a capacity building model among HIV ambulatory care programs funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. The HIVQUAL model adapts three basic components of quality management (QM) - performance measurement (PM), quality improvement (QI) and the quality management program (QMP), implemented through coaching and mentoring, peer learning and patient involvement.
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
Sanford Health-Fargo Region: Improving the Care of Diabetic Patients with Hypertension
This activity is open to Sanford Health-Fargo Region physicians and will focus on the Minnesota Community Measures for diabetic patients with hypertension. For more information please contact Kristie Invie at kristie.invie@sanfordhealth.org or 701-234-7026.
MOC Points: 20
Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) Continuous Quality Improvement Program
This activity is open to SCPMG physicians and will focus on our current clinical strategic goals. For more information please contact Vanessa Diaz, Regional Physician Education, at Vanessa.Diaz@kp.org or 626-405-6485.
MOC Points: 20
UW Health Diabetes Improvement Initiative
UW Health physicians who are responsible for the treatment and management of diabetes patients have the opportunity to receive CME and MOC for their participation in the UW Health Diabetes Improvement Initiative. Physicians interested in participating in this initiative should contact Travis Dollak at 608-821-4910. Physicians already participating, but looking to earn CME/MOC should contact Teena Nelson at 608-240-6006.
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 Nebraska Medical Center: 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
University of Nebraska Medical Center: PROTECT - Supporting Appropriate Immunization Across the Age Spectrum
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
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
