Let SCAI 2010 Guidewire to MOC Program Navigate YOU Through ABIM Recertificatoin

Taking place at the SCAI 2010 Scientific Sessions, SCAI's Guidewire to MOC program will make the ABIM MOC process easier to understand and to complete by providing:

• Interactive learning sessions featuring SCAI experts and ABIM staff. Each session worth 10 self-evaluation of medical knowledge points!
• Interventional Cardiology Simulation Sessions - good for 20 self evaluation of medical knowledge points.
• Opportunities to complete MOC point requirements on site.
• No additional cost to Scientific Sessions registration fees.
• ABIM staff on site to answer questions and walk you through the MOC.

Register today for the SCAI 2010 Scientific Sessions

Maintaining Certification in Interventional Cardiology: What Interventionalists Need to Know

Many interventional cardiologists achieved certification when the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) established board certification in their subspecialty in 2,000. Physicians in this class of board-certified interventional cardiologists should now be completing the requirements to maintain their certification, which will expire Dec. 31, 2010. Among the requirements, physicians must hold an unrestricted medical license and be in good standing. In addition, interventional cardiologists must submit a Form Attesting to Interventional Cardiology Practice, verifying their performance as primary operator, co-operator, or supervisor of 150 percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) cases in the two years prior to the expiration of the certificate.

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