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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.
*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 during your annual MOCA registration, you can claim up to 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ each year by completing your MOCA Minute questions in their intended quarter.
You must answer all 30 questions in the quarter they are intended to earn 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ per quarter. For example, if you complete all 120 questions during Q4 (Oct. 1-Dec. 31), you will only receive 2.5 total credits for the year as you will have only completed one set of questions in the intended quarter.
Credits are reported on a quarterly basis and will be reflected in your ASA transcript and ABA GO portal. Non-ASA members will be charged a $40 quarterly processing fee by the ASA for each quarter in which they participate.
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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