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MOCA Minute® questions are designed to keep your knowledge base sound and up to date with changing industry advancements
You must answer 120 MOCA Minute questions* each year by 11:59 p.m. ET, Dec. 31 and/or maintain a MDT p-value of ≥ 0.10.
However, in the final year of your certification cycle, you are required to complete all 120 MOCA Minute questions (30 questions per calendar quarter by 11:59 p.m. ET, Dec. 31) and maintain a MDT p-value of ≥ 0.10.
You can answer up to 30 questions per day and per quarter.
*Note: Any unanswered questions at the end of the year will be considered incorrect and will negatively impact your performance (MDT p-value)
Your MOCA Minute questions are multiple-choice questions with a single, best answer. The questions you’re prompted with are personalized based on the certificates you’re currently maintaining. Once you access a MOCA Minute question, you’ll have one minute to answer it and will learn immediately if your response was correct. You can also see the question’s rationale, a critique and associated references.
The Knowledge Assessment Report identifies additional learning opportunities and activities and provides overviews of peer-to-peer and year-over-year performance comparisons. It also pulls 120 of your most recently missed questions for your review. You can find this tool in your ABA GO progress report under MOCA Minute.
If you opted in to earn CME credit for answering MOCA Minute questions, you must answer 30 questions in the quarter they are intended for 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ per quarter.
For example, if you complete 30 questions during Q1 (Jan. 1 – March 31), you will receive 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and so forth throughout the year. If you complete all 120 questions during Q4 (Oct. 1 – Dec. 31), you will only receive 2.5 total AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for the year as you only completed one set of questions in the intended quarter. CME for MOCA Minute credits are not reported in your ABA GO portal until the following year.
Non-ASA members who registered for MOCA and opted in to claim CME must purchase the $160 CME for MOCA Minute activity for $160 through the ASA by April 1. This offer is not available after that time.
MDT is a statistical model that estimates the likelihood or probability that diplomates are keeping their knowledge up-to-date based on their pattern of responses to MOCA Minute questions. We are using it to gauge over time whether diplomates’ knowledge is at the level expected of a board-certified anesthesiologist.
It is an estimate of the probability that you are keeping your specialty-specific knowledge up-to-date. The more questions you answer, the more certain we can be about whether you are keeping your knowledge current.
Your p-value identifies you as belonging to one of two groups – an “up-to-date” group or and a “not up-to-date” group. A diplomate is in the up-to-date group if their probability or p-value is ≥0.1. The vast majority of diplomates are in the up-to-date group.
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