Cardiovascular Disease
The links below outline the details of the Certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) programs in Cardiovascular Disease.
Certification
- Policies and Requirements
- Cost
- Cardiovascular Disease Exam Dates and Content
- Scheduling a Cardiovascular Disease Exam
- Cardiovascular Disease Exam Tutorial
Learn more about Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology Certification and Maintenance of Certification.
Maintenance of Certification
You do not need to maintain certification in Internal Medicine to become re-certified in Cardiovascular Disease.
- Requirements
- Enrollment and Cost
- Cardiovascular Disease Exam Dates and Content
- Scheduling a Cardiovascular Disease Exam
- Cardiovascular Disease Exam Tutorial
MOC Guide for Cardiologists (pdf) (as of January 31, 2010)
Self-Evaluation Requirements
Begin working on your self-evaluation requirements as soon as you enroll in MOC.
Recommended Medical Knowledge Modules:
Learning Sessions are an interesting and collaborative way to earn medical knowledge credit.
Watch video on how physicians earned credit towards MOC at the 2009 ACC conference.
Recommended Practice Performance Products:
- ABIM Approved Quality Improvement (AQI) Pathway - ACP Closing the Gap - Cardiovascular Risk
- Clinical Supervision
- Communication - Subspecialists
- Communication with Referring Physicians
- Hospital-Based Patient Care (Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction)
- Hypertension
- Preventive Cardiology
- Self-Directed (using data from approved sources including the ACC's National Cardiovascular Data Registry, or to report on group practice QI projects)
Use our Practice Performance Selector Tool to help you choose the best option for you.
