UPDATED Petition to Support Lifelong Learning and Oppose Maintenance of Licensure (MOL) in Iowa

MOC is costly and bureacratic exercise. We all want high quality care, but please consider the broader effects of ever increasing MOC requirements on physicians with no checks and balances or controls built into this process. Ever increasing MOC WILL lead to physicians retiring earlier and having less time available for seeing patients and increase overall medical costs without appreciable improvements in patient experiences.

In my opinion, all kinds of boards are intended to raise profit for some private organizations and rip doctors off their time and money.

can you make it national

MOC is a self aggrandizement for the establishment with no benefit to patient care!

Government mandates are meaningless. Let physicians set the parameters for professionalism in their practice.

MOL/MOC programs have been developed by entities which attempt to use governmental power to exclude physicians from practicing medicine. Those who are allowed to practice must first enter a revolving door and submit to LLL (life-long larceny), via which considerable sums are regularly extracted from their bank accounts for the duration of their careers.

There is no scientific evidence that the public or physicians benefit in any way from MOC. There is no question that ABMS and their constituent specialty boards have benefited financially from MOC.

its an absolutely abusive now from ABMS for this MOC. They want money money money money. I enrolled MOC for ABIM 2 years ago, as they were keep sending to sign up even though its expiring on 2016. Now after i finished my exam, they want me to enroll in new programm and they want more money. They are absoultely abusive, dishonest, griddy and they really do not care about quality of care.

Make this a national petition!

MOC is a confidence scheme in the truest sense of the word! The BMS and the boards have changed certification to meet THEIR corporate profit goals without any outcome based data to support this $350 million dollar cost to heath care.

The original Iowa Medical Society House of Delegates resolution to support lifelong learning and oppose MOL is here: IOWA MEDICAL SOCIETY HOUSE OF DELEGATES Resolution 13-1 Introduced by: James Amos, MD Subject: Opposition to Maintenance of Licensure (MOL) Referred to: Whereas, In 2010 the Federation of State Medical Boards, Inc. (FSMB) House of Delegates adopted the Maintenance of Licensure (MOL) framework, a process by which physicians periodically provide, as a condition of license renewal, evidence that they are actively participating in a program of continuous professional development that is relevant to their areas of practice, measured against objective data sources and aimed at improving performance over time; and Whereas, The FSMB website states that, in lieu of MOL, the American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program and the American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists’ Osteopathic Continuous Certification (OCC) program incorporate activities generally consistent with the intentions of MOL, state licensing boards may elect to substantially or fully qualify licensees engaged in these activities; and Whereas, Medical organizations have for years opposed any effort to mandate the content of continuing medical education (CME) required for licensure because physicians themselves are in the best position to determine what educational opportunities will be most helpful in improving their practice, based on the type of patients that they see and the procedures that they perform; and Whereas, There is no evidence that physicians who have completed the maintenance of board certification procedure make more accurate diagnoses or are more skillful at performing their treatments; and Whereas, Maintenance of board certification is extremely costly and time consuming, requiring time away from patient care or from more relevant study, and greatly exceeds the level of knowledge needed for basic medical licensure; a