New Certification Requirements Michelle DiBaise, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA

New Certification Requirements: strategic threats and opportunities to your CME programs 1.Understand the changes to certification maintenance requirements. 2.Indentify tools and resources available to help your members understand certification of maintenance changes. 3.Discussion of the threats that will arise to your CME program as a result of new certification maintenance changes. 4.Identify opportunities for PI-CME activities that can be integrated with practice, local and state level quality improvement initiatives 5.Provide feedback about the Academy’s strategic plan around certification maintenance changes. 6.Recognize and integrates opportunities into your strategic plan in the following three areas: e- learning, self assessment, PI-CME

Understand the changes to certification maintenance requirements

Current Maintenance Requirements Every two years - CME Every 6 years - PANRE

Certification Maintenance Changes Beginning 2014, two major changes: Recertification exam cycle extended to 10 years IIII Year II 810 (PANRE) Cycle

Certification Maintenance Changes 20 Category 1 Credits must be earned through directed CME Performance Improvement CME And/Or Self-assessment CME

PI-CME 2001 – AMA Task Force on PI-CME – Developed criteria, parallel systems adopted by AAFP and AOA Integrating QI concepts – Quality/Performance Measures (EBM concepts) – Measuring Baseline Performance – Interventions – Re-measurement

CME Credit for PI Three stages for CME credit: A Identify evidence-based measure and assess practice B Intervention(s) C Re-measure; document improvement 5 CME credits/stage; 20 for complete project

PI-CME Stage A Learning from current practice performance assessment Assess current practice using identified performance measures Chart reviews or some other appropriate mechanism Participants should be actively involved in analysis of collected data – Key to understanding causes of variations in performance – Key to selecting the best intervention

PI-CME Stage B Learning from the application of PI to patient care Implement an intervention designed to improve on the performance measures selected in Stage A The PI-CME activity and faculty should provide guidance for selecting & tracking the applied intervention Intervention should be specific to the participant’s practice setting and patient base

PI-CME Stage C Learning from the evaluation of the PI CME effort Re-assess and reflect on performance in practice measured after the implementation of the intervention(s) in Stage B Compare to the assessment done in Stage A using the same performance measures. Summarize any practice, process and/or outcome changes that resulted from the PI CME activity.

What is Self-Assessment? NCCPA Definition: – The process of conducting a systematic review of one’s own performance, knowledge base or skill set, usually for the purpose of improving future performance, expanding knowledge or honing skills

Role of Self-Assessment in CPD Miller’s Pyramid of Clinical Competence Behavior Cognition Focus of Self-Assessment

Who is affected and when? 2014 PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2014 New graduate PAs who pass PANCE in PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2015 New graduate PAs who pass PANCE in PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2016 New graduate PAs who pass PANCE in PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2017 New graduate PAs who pass PANCE in PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2018 Newly Graduate PAs who pass PANCE in PAs whose current 6 year cycle ends in 2019 Newly Graduate PAs who pass PANCE in Fully Implemented for all certified PAs 1/6 of PA population or ~20,000 PAs* 1/3 of PA population or ~40,000 PAs 1/2 of PA population or ~60,000 PAs 2/3 of PA population or ~80,000 PAs 5/6 of PA population or ~100,000 PAs Total PA population or ~120,000 PAs *Assumes 6,000 new graduates and 14,000 recertifying PAs (1/6 of the certified population) per year

Who is involved in the change of certification maintenance process? Why is this changing? Set New Requirements Establish Criteria Develop & Provide CME Activities Notify & Support PAs Document & Report PA and Physician Specialty Organizations, Medical Education Companies

Collaborative Development of Review Criteria Convened “Certification Maintenance Advisory Panel” – Professional Education Commission, Greg Thomas, PA (NCCPA), Nancy Davis, PhD (NIQIE), Bernie Stuetz PA-C, Staff CHARGE Establish accreditation review criteria that will be the basis for judging what is acceptable for self assessment and PI-CME requirements. Make a recommendation about how to apply the review criteria to non-clinical settings Completed over last 4 months, criteria and recommendation on non-clinical settings to be delivered to NCCPA in coming weeks

Criteria common to both PI-CME and Self Assessment Meaningful Practical Harmonization with other medical specialty boards Values team based collaboration with physician and other members of the healthcare team Modularized approaches are acceptable. 20 hours of a combination of PI- CME and/or Self Assessment CME will be the basis of the 2 year requirement with a completion of 40 hours of each type within an 8 year cycle. This encourages linkage between self assessment and PI-CME, and selecting activities that are practical for the practice setting.

Non-Clinical Recommendation Practice setting and activities defined as those that contribute to improved patient safety or healthcare quality either directly or indirectly – Teaching – Administrative leadership in a healthcare setting or PA professional association setting – Additional practice settings approved by PEC Align with 6 competencies Directly or Indirectly improves the health of the public

What are you hearing? Angst? Enthusiasm? Uncertainty? Ambivalence? We need to understand how the changes are perceived by PAs and why they feel that way in order to capitalize on the opportunity

Indentify tools and resources available to help your members understand certification of maintenance changes

Resources AAPA website NCCPA website NCCPA personal certification record (“my record”) to check individual transition timeline: Transition to the New Certification Maintenance Process “Your first 10-year certification maintenance cycle will begin with the cycle, at which time new CME requirements will go into effect for you. Read more about the new process.”about the new process.

Resources AAFP, “Understanding METRIC and Performance Improvement” Measuring Evaluating and Translating Research Into Care AAP, Education in Quality Improvement for Pediatric Practice (EQIPP) ACP, Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) AOA, Clinical Assessment Program Local health care delivery systems – quality improvement initiatives