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evidence-based deliberations on Medicare-for-All, as well as alternatives, with at least 3 periodic meetings throughout the year, leading to recommendations on MSMS taking a definitive position (pro or con) on Medicare-for-All; and be it further
RESOLVED, that this Task Force report its recommen- dations to the 2023 MSMS House of Delegates.
References:
1) Tolbert J, Orgera K. Key facts about the uninsured population. Kaiser Family Foundation, Nov. 6, 2020. https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts- about-the-uninsured-population/
2) Collins SR, Bhupal HK, Doty MM. Health insurance coverage eight years after the ACA: fewer uninsured Americans and shorter coverage gaps, but more underinsured (Commonwealth Fund, Feb. 2019), at: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/ issue-briefs/2019/feb/health-insurance-coverage- eight-years-after-aca
3) eHealth Insurance. Medicare Consumer Survey, February 2019. https://news.ehealthinsurance. com/_ir/68/20191/eHealth%20Medicare%20 Consumer%20Survey%20February%202019.pdf
Title: Amend Board of Medicine Rules to align with ABMS Policy Changes
Introduced by: Richard E. Burney, MD, for the Washtenaw County Medical Society
Whereas R.338.2443 of the Administrative Rules of the Board of Medicine regarding continuing medical education specify that specialty board certification or recertification may count for 50 hours of CME in the year in which it is achieved, and
Whereas this rule is based on the premise that such board recertification will be based on an examination that is taken at intervals of 5 to 10 years, as prescribed by the applicable specialty board, and
Whereas the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) supports the use of, and encourages state boards to recognize, a licensee’s participation in an ABMS MOC and/or AOA BOS OCC program as an acceptable means of meeting CME requirements for license renewal., and
Whereas the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has adopted new policies regarding renewal of specialty certification moving from a “maintenance of certification” done at five to ten-year intervals to a “continuing certification” model in which to maintain board certification the diplomate will be actively and continuously engaged with the specialty board CME program, and
Whereas this new model of formative continuing medical education is superior to the present summa- tive model, and
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