Cardiovascular Disease

Click the links below for full details about Certification and Maintenance of Certification requirements for this specialty.

Note: Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Certification is under development. Read More.

Certification

• Exam
• Policies

Maintenance of Certification

• Exam
• Policies
• Recommended PIMs
  • ABIM Approved Quality Improvement (AQI) Pathway - ACP Closing the Gap - Cardiovascular Risk
  • Communication - Subspecialists
  • Communication with Referring Physicians
  • Hospital-Based Patient Care (Heart Failure, Myocardial Infarction)
  • Hypertension
  • Preventive Cardiology
  • Self-Directed (using data from approved sources including the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry, or to report on group practice QI projects)
    
    Instructions for using NCDR Data to complete Self-Directed PIM
• Medical Knowledge Modules
  • Cardiovascular Disease Medical Knowledge Modules

  Watch video on how physicians earned credit towards MOC at the 2009 ACC conference.