Filtered By:
Source: Dr. Wes

This page shows you your search results in order of date.

Order by Relevance | Date

Total 52 results found since Jan 2013.

Medical Societies Side with ABIM at the Expense of Their Members
Yesterday in a coordinated blow, the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), Society for Cardiovascular Interventions (SCAI), the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) turned to their marketing muscle, funded in large part by the medical device industry, to issue a joint letter to their respective physician
Source: Dr. Wes - May 29, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

What Do Working Cardiologists Really Think About the ACC's CMP Pathway?
What do US cardiologists and electrophysiologists REALLY think about the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) heavily-promoted collaboration with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to create their "Continuous Maintenance Pathway" (CMP) for continually maintaining their ABIM board certification? That's a question I wanted to know, so I helped create a quick 5-minute survey on the
Source: Dr. Wes - April 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: ABIM ACC American Board of Internal Medicine American College of Cardiology Continuous Certification Continuous Maintenance Pathway Maintenance of Certification MOC Source Type: blogs

The Big Easy: The ACC, HRS, and the ABIM
This weekend, at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, the ACC and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) announced their commitment to the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) continuous certification financial shakedown of US cardiologists and cardiac electrophysiologists. Taking a playbook from the American Medical Association, their leadership has
Source: Dr. Wes - March 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Why the ACC Threw Cardiologists and EPs Under The MOC ® Bus and Why We Let Them
In its latest update with Maintenance of Certification (MOC ®), the good ol' boy network of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), and Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), announced their commitment to "continuous certification" and MOC® and all its lucrati ve trappings for US cardiologists and
Source: Dr. Wes - March 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

ABIM To Diplomates: Merry Christmas! Participate in MOC or Else
This weekend, I received this orange notice from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in the mail: (Click to enlarge) At first I was going to ignore this flier, since I am board certified until 2023 in Cardiology and 2024 in Cardiac Electrophysiology. But then I read the reverse side of the flier, and noticed this threatening sentence: "Your deadline is approaching, so we wanted
Source: Dr. Wes - November 26, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

For Whom MOC Tolls
He saw me in the hall between cases and our eyes connected, however briefly. I probably looked a bit tired, hair askew, and rushed after a long ablation case as I scurried to grab a quick bite to eat before my next case started. He was one of our best fellows in cardiology - hard working, innovative, never one to skip a clinical detail or shirk a responsibility, who clearly wanted to chat. He
Source: Dr. Wes - October 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Moving Mountains By Example: Doctor Inspires Others to Fund Anti-MOC Legal Effort
In a reaffirming gesture of solidarity, San Francisco cardiologist Michel Accad, MD has offered to supply an electronic copy of his book "Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine" (seen on Amazon) free of charge to anyone donating $50 or more in the next two weeks to our legal effort to end the onerous and unproven ABMS Maintenance of
Source: Dr. Wes - August 7, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Everybody Knows a Frank
Frank is one of the smartest people in his cardiology division. He's bright, congenial, and capable of citing the latest clinical trial on the best imaging study to detect hibernating myocardium. He loves learning. Frank is the guy you used to confide in the doctors' lounge (that doesn't exist anymore). Others knew what a good guy Frank was too; Frank was nominated to  write and edit questions for
Source: Dr. Wes - June 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Medical Subspecialty Societies Rush to Bail Out ABIM
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) are negotiating with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) on how best to preserve the Maintenance of Certification (MOC ®) educational product for their mutual interests. The ACC Board of Governors will be meeting at the ACC scientific sessions in Orlando in early
Source: Dr. Wes - March 1, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Despite Known Conflicts, ACC/HRS Endorse MOC
The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC), two organizations who stand to gain handsomely from their NCDR procedural registries, published a carefully-worded combined statement on "Lifelong Learning Requirements for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (CCEP) Specialists" in their respective journals this week. In a glaring ommision, the publication concerned itself
Source: Dr. Wes - November 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

The American College of Cardiology and ABIM
I wonder how many American College of Cardiology (ACC) members are aware  that the ACC entered into a "Memorandum of Understanding" with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), (along side the American College of Physicians and American College of Clinical Oncology) "to explore development of collaborative pathways through which physicians can maintain board cer tification:" “The ACC is
Source: Dr. Wes - September 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

Common Sense
Four years ago, I had to "re-board certify" in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology or lose my ability to practice medicine at the hospital I have worked since 2001. The "de-credentialing" aspect of failing to participate in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) self-proclaimed "Maintenance of Certification" (MOC) program  infuriated me, but I was left with no choice but to "pay
Source: Dr. Wes - July 3, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: Maintenance of Certification Maintenance of Licensure Practicing Physicians of America Source Type: blogs

Staying Prepared at Christmas
Good Samaritan cardiologists  never know when they (or someone else) might need 81 mg of aspirin  this holiday season.  Here are some fancy cufflinks (seen in clinic today) that every cardiologist should consider: -Wes PS: I have no commercial interest in this gift idea. :)
Source: Dr. Wes - November 28, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs

American College of Cardiology and the MOC Crisis
This week's issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) contains an editorial from Robert Shor, MD, Chair of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Board of Governors entitled "Addressing the Maintenance of Certification Crisis Calls for Working Together." The editorial touches on the relationship of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Board
Source: Dr. Wes - July 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Tags: ABIM ABMS American Board of Internal Medicine American Board of Medical Specialties American College of Cardiology Maintenace of Certification MOC Source Type: blogs

ACC Issues "Urgent" Message, But To Whom?
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) leadership, troubled by the "complex situation" presented by the changes in re-certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), issued an "urgent message" yesterday on their blog. This message hinted at the ACC's pathway forward: to create a "second task force" to "aggressively" explore "whether an alternative board should/could be
Source: Dr. Wes - April 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs