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MOC: How It Benefits You
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MOC Delivers:

Better Clinical Outcomes for Patients
MOC reduces your malpractice exposure and justifies lower malpractice premiums. Evidence-based guidelines and standards safeguard patients and reduce errors.

Efficiency in Your Practice
Learning opportunities match your practice needs. MOC is based on the most current research on physician competence, patient safety and practice management to ensure you are responsive and well-prepared for patient expectations, higher accountability and increasing transparency in today's shifting healthcare environment.

Fewer Hassles and Less Redundant Paperwork
Use MOC to document your continuing competence when undergoing credentialing by healthcare organizations or licensing bodies. MOC is a benchmark standard that fulfi lls requirements of multiple assessment processes and regulatory organizations (e.g. The Joint Commission, NCQA, hospital credentialers).

More Influence
Board certification is a recognized quality marker by patients, physicians, providers, quality organizations, insurers, credentialers and the federal government. Your commitment to MOC wins you more patients, better compensation and industry wide recognition.

Learn more about the six competencies and four parts of the MOC process on this Web site. For more information about the MOC curriculum, training requirements and exam deadlines and fees for your medical specialty, visit the Web site of your Member Board.