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Plan for Maintaining Your Subspecialty Certification

Get Your Exam Results

Demonstrating that your medical knowledge is current throughout your career and ensuring you are up to date on the latest advancements in your specialty is an important marker for you, your employer and your patients. It signifies a higher standard and has been correlated in studies with better patient care.

Maintaining your certification has two main components:

  • Performance (taking an assessment)
  • Participation (completing activities)

Fellowship Credit

ABIM recognizes fellowship training as an important part of lifelong learning and continuous professional development.

For each year that a physician successfully completes accredited+ fellowship training in an ABIM subspecialty, they earn 20 Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points. Annual MOC fees are waived for any year during which a physician is in accredited fellowship training in an ABIM subspecialty.

Unaccredited training or training in a non-ABIM subspecialty does not qualify. Please contact your program director to verify whether your training is accredited.

How the fellowship fee waiver works:

Line graph showing that MOC fees are waived beginning the year fellowship training starts, continuing through the duration of training and the year it ends. The first MOC fee is due January 1 of the year after fellowship ends. Also shows fellows earn 20 MOC points per year during training.

Learn More About MOC

  • +Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), or training completed in Canada that has been accredited by either the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or the Collège des médecins du Québec.