PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Physicians (ACP) announced
a new, three-year strategic priority expanding its commitment to,
and support of, physicians in their engagement with continuous
learning and professional accountability. ACP has long recognized
the medical profession's responsibility to ensure quality medical
care and has supported physicians in their lifelong learning and
demonstration of ongoing accountability. The recently updated ACP
Professional Accountability Principles endorse longitudinal
formative assessment, support holistic credentialing for patient
care, and outline important attributes and standards for any
organization that is involved in assuring physician
accountability.
"Physicians deserve to be recognized for
their dedication to continuous self-learning . . . "
The new strategic priority builds on ACP's 55-year history of
leadership in physician continuing learning, assessment, and
feedback. These priorities also help to facilitate innovative
approaches for physicians to demonstrate their continuance of
knowledge, document learning, and provide evidence of engagement
with high-quality education. Since 1967, ACP's Medical Knowledge
and Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP) has offered the gold standard
in continuing medical education for internal medicine physicians.
Recently, ACP has been piloting a new MKSAP feature, CORE
(Confirmation of Relevant Education), which allows physician
learners to enter a more rigorous assessment component including a
standardized passing threshold. If they are successful, CORE
participants receive a badge confirming their achievement and can
earn and print a CORE certificate for inclusion in their
professional portfolio. ACP has received overwhelmingly positive
feedback on CORE's perceived value and relevance to clinical
practice during this pilot phase.
In April 2025, following the
February 2025 launch of ACP MKSAP,
ACP plans to integrate the CORE standardized assessment feature
fully into its new ACP MKSAP program. The new CORE feature is one
way ACP is responding to requests from internal medicine physicians
for new ways to recognize their dedication to continual learning
and assessment and their achievements in keeping up with changes in
medical knowledge.
"By confirming our commitment to our accountability principles,
we recognize that physicians are responsible for maintaining
continuing knowledge in the field and accepting feedback from
reputable sources as to where their knowledge gaps are and how to
close those gaps," said Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, Ph.D., FACP,
president, ACP. "Physicians deserve to be recognized for their
dedication to continuous self -learning and we feel confident that
CORE will help our members and MKSAP users to demonstrate their
professional accountability and their maintenance of knowledge in
internal medicine."
About the American College of Physicians
The American College of Physicians is
the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members in more than
145 countries worldwide. ACP membership includes 161,000 internal
medicine physicians, related subspecialists, and medical students.
Internal medicine physicians are specialists who apply scientific
knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and
compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to
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