Life Long Learning and Self Assessment

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Life Long Learningand Self Assessment

• MOC Part 2

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Continuing Medical Education

• 50 CME hours annually
• Minimum of 30 of these hours must be category
  1CME annually
• Minimum of 1/3rd must be self assessment
• This is averaged over 3 years
• 50 hours minimum self assessment in 3 year cycle
• MOC year will run July 1 June 30

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Vascular Surgery Certification

• Minimum of 50 of total CME must be in Vascular
  Surgery
• Minimum 25 hours annually in vascular
• Essentially one vascular meeting a year would
  fulfill the vascular CME requirement
• 100 of self assessment CME must be in vascular
  surgery

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Vascular CME examples

• SVS Annual meeting
• Affiliated societies annual meetings
• SCVS
• PVSS
• Regional vascular societies
• American Venous Forum
• ISES

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Vascular CME

• VEITH, VIVA, ISET, TCT
• Vascular ultrasound meetings
• Wound care meetings
• ACS Clinical Congress vascular sessions
• SVS courses
• Carotid, Lower extremity, thoracic
• Practice management, coding, billing

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Vascular CME

• Documentation
• Purely vascular meeting will require only CME
  certificate
• Partially vascular meeting such as ACS Clinical
  Congress, will require notation of sessions
  attended as well as the CME certificate

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Self Assessment CME

• Vascular Surgery Self Assessment Program VSAP
• Will be available summer 2008
• 250 questions
• CME credit value yet to be determined
• Revised and republished every three years

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Self Assessment CME

• Vascular Self Evaluation Program VSEP
• 400 questions
• Max 60 hrs CME
• SESAP also satisfies self assessment requirement
• 650 questions
• Max 65 hrs CME
• Only a portion is considered vascular specific

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Journal of Vascular Surgery CME

• Monthly CME exercise
• Single test covering 4 selected articles
• Total of 8 questions, 2 questions per article for
  2 CME credits
• All questions must be answered correctly to
  obtain CME credit
• but the test may be repeated
• New articles chosen each month for CME purposes
• Existing tests remain on the system for 2 years
• Up to 24 CME credits can be obtained each year