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Medical Licensure
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At all times, hold an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in all jurisdictions of the United States or Canada in which you hold a license.
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The ABO receives quarterly licensure updates from the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), so you will not be asked to manually update this information unless something is missing.
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Ensuring that all ABO diplomates maintain valid, unrestricted medical licenses keeps you in the company of board-certified colleagues who share your commitment to professional, ethical practice.
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CME and Self-Assessment Credit
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Every two years, earn and attest to an average of 50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, including 16 credits that qualify as self-assessment.
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Earn CME from the accredited providers of your choice. The ABO does not require you to upload course certificates or CME transcripts; simply log in to the ABO website and attest to completion of CME every two years.
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This step encourages you to focus your attention on enhancing your knowledge about the topics that best serve you and your patients.
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Complete one activity that qualifies as patient safety.
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The patient safety requirement may be met by reading patient safety articles as part of participation in the Quarterly Questions program or choosing a patient safety activity from the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory.
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As physicians, we pledge first and foremost to “do no harm.” This activity facilitates learning about ways we can protect eye care patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.
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Quarterly Questions® Assessment Activity
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Meet the annual passing standard on the Quarterly Questions program at least five times before the end of the 10-year cycle.
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Questions may be answered online, on-demand. New content is available annually and released in quarterly segments. Questions fall into two categories: knowledge-based questions pertaining to everyday clinical practice knowledge and questions based on peer-reviewed journal readings.
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The program helps improve everyday practice knowledge in the subspecialty area(s) of your choice and builds new clinical knowledge through the reading of “must-read” peer-reviewed journal articles.
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Improvement in Medical Practice
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Complete two activities from the Improvement in Medical Practice Menu
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Choose two of the following:
> Read quality improvement-focused articles and answer related questions as part of participation in the Quarterly Questions program. Please note: this option may be used to meet the requirement only once.
> Design your own Improvement in Medical Practice project using a standard quality improvement methodology for yourself or as a group, or choose a COVID-19 or Amblyopia-based project template. Advance ABO review and approval is required.
> Choose from 10 designated American Academy of Ophthalmology CME activities.
> Participate in a qualified ABMS Portfolio Project.
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Participation in an improvement activity opens a new window into your practice patterns and outcomes. Perhaps you’ll spot a trend in your practice data that you hadn’t noticed before or a performance gap you could close with the implementation of a simple intervention.
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