Beginning in 2019, thanks to the work of more than 10,000 board-certified pediatrician volunteers, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) will offer a new way to fulfill the MOC Part 3 (exam) requirement: the Maintenance of Certification Assessment for Pediatrics, or MOCA-Peds.
MOCA-Peds is an online, non-proctored assessment platform. With the help of those pediatrician volunteers, MOCA-Peds was launched as a pilot in January 2017. The pilot will continue as the platform is refined in 2018 before it goes live in 2019.
This online platform will provide a number of new features to enhance the MOC Part 3 process including:
If you continue to pass MOCA-Peds, you will never have to take a proctored exam at a secure testing facility again to maintain your certification.
Not everyone will start MOCA-Peds in 2019. MOCA-Peds will be available in 2019 for pediatricians in General Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics, Pediatric Gastroenterology, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases whose MOC cycle begins in 2019 and whose assessment due date is during that cycle. After that, the ABP plans to make MOCA-Peds available to a few subspecialties each year. For now though, exam due dates for all subspecialties will be postponed until MOCA-Peds is available to them.
Log into your ABP Portfolio to find out when MOCA-Peds will be available to you. For more information on MOCA-Peds, including a look at the platform and sample questions, visit abp.org/mocapeds.