Medical Economics February 5, 2024
Flexibility, lower cost make it more popular than written examination
A large majority of physicians seeking to maintain their specialty certification are using the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) longitudinal knowledge assessment (LKA) option to do so.
The ABIM, in a JAMA ”Viewpoint” article, disclosed that 80% of board-certified physicians are choosing the LKA over the long-form maintenance of certification (MOC) exam to renew their board certification.
Introduced in 2022, the advantages of the LKA are that it doesn’t require advance preparation, takes an average of only four hours per year to complete, and after answering the questions “provides the diplomate with immediate feedback, rationales, and references while offering the opportunity to provide critiques of the item to ABIM,”...
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