Maintaining Your HPM Certification
Because the first hospice and palliative medicine subspecialty certification exams were administered nearly 10 years ago, many of the 7,000+ HPM diplomates are approaching the end of the initial 10-year certification. Turn to AAHPM's products and resources to help you maintain your board certification.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
These AAHPM products can help meet the MOC requirements.
HPM FAST - Hospice Regulatory
MOC Part II CME Activity: 8 ABIM; 2 ABA, ABFM, ABPN, ABR, ABPMR
Expiration Dates: October 31, 2018 (ABIM); August 31, 2019 (ABA, ABFM, ABPN, ABR, ABPMR)
HPM PASS, 3rd Edition
MOC Part II CME Activity: 10 ABIM, ABP
Expiration Date: July 8, 2019
Essential Practices in Hospice and Palliative Medicine Learning Modules
MOC Part II CME Activity: 3 per module/ABP, ABIM
Expiration Date: September 18, 2020
HPM FAST - Pediatric
MOC Part II CME Activity: 2 ABIM, ABP
Expiration Date: March 5, 2021
HPM FAST - Psychiatry/Cognition
MOC Part II CME Activity: 2 ABIM, ABP
Expiration Date: March 5, 2021
HPM FAST - Prognostication
MOC Part II CME Activity: 2 ABIM, ABP
Expiration Date: March 5, 2021
Learn more about the full MOC requirements of your primary board at ABMS.org or contact your primary board for details. Osteopathic physicians and physicians from other primary boards should check directly with their boards about getting MOC/OCC credits for these education activities.
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Requirements
Some of the Boards require maintenance of the underlying specialty and some Boards do not. This is only general information. It is important to contact your applicable primary certification board for detailed requirements.
Does not require underlying certification to maintain certification in hospice and palliative medicine:
- Internal Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Surgery
- Anesthesiology
Requires maintenance of underlying certification to maintain certification in hospice and palliative medicine:
- Family Medicine
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Psychiatry and Neurology
- Radiology
- Emergency
Hospice and Palliative Medicine MOC Exam
Registration for the MOC exam is completed through the physician's primary certifying board. ABIM administers the MOC exam annually. Learn more about upcoming dates of administration.
"HPM certification establishes that Palliative Medicine is a "legitimate" branch of medical practice. This says I value palliative medicine as an area of my practice and it takes special skills and training to be able to provide high quality care."
— F. Amos Bailey, MD FACP FAAHPM
Osteopathic Continuous Certification
If you hold a time-limited certificate, you are required to participate in the five components of the OCC process in order to maintain your osteopathic board certification.
DOs with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine are required to maintain certification in the underlying, primary Board. Please contact your primary Board for details.