Continuing Medical Education: Collaboration is Essential

For the past five decades or so, primary care boards worked independently. However, with the constant desire to perform better, for the sake of continuing medical education, and the rise of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) programs, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the American Board of Pediatrics begun to collaborate to continually raise the quality of service offered by their diplomates. The collaboration of these three boards is a huge step as they represent almost half of all the board-certified physicians in America.

Since then, the three boards had a collective goal of using each other’s knowledge to come up with wider range and better tools that medical professionals can use to maintain their certification and enhance the quality of health care provided to patients through certification. Needless to say, their collaboration made it a lot easier for physicians to work together and get their hands on tools that can help them with continuing medical education and their certification.

Now, when we were in college we were always taught that in the world of medicine, we all work as a team. Physicians cannot function efficiently without nurses, and nurses are the same towards physicians. There are decisions and procedures that are definitely easier done when we all work together as a team. Clearly, this is not only true in the clinical area as collaboration evidently did its wonders with continuing medical education and MOC too.

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