PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ann E. Harman
AU  - David O. Warner
AU  - Daniel J. Cole
TI  - Connecting Purpose and Performance: Rethinking the Purpose of Maintenance of Certification
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2020.S1.190400
DP  - 2020 Sep 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - S15--S20
VI  - 33
IP  - Supplement
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/33/Supplement/S15.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/33/Supplement/S15.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2020 Sep 01; 33
AB  - American Boards of Medical Specialties have emphasized single point in time testing for summative assessment of cognitive expertise necessary for board certification. In 2016, the American Board of Anesthesiology introduced Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology (MOCA), a longitudinal assessment platform that provides diplomates formative feedback with continuous questions over time and adapts questions to areas of knowledge weaknesses over time. This paper describes the rationale, history, and early results of the American Board of Anesthesiology MOCA platform.