The American Board of

Anesthesiology

Robert R. Gaiser, M.D.ABA Director

Yale New Haven Medical Center

Santhanam Suresh, M.D., MBAABA President

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital

• Dynamic Adaptations to COVID-19 Circumstances– Graduate class reports– 2020 BASIC Exams– 2021 In-Training Exam (ITE)– Virtual APPLIED Exams– Candidate Status Extension

• 2022 OSCE Changes

• AIME Center Sneak Peek

• ITE, BASIC and ADVANCED Exam Updates

• Future of Continuing Certification

• We will be delaying the delivery of the reports until late May so we can include the 2020 cohort data

• Many of our exams were cancelled or rearranged due to the pandemic, and we want to make sure you have the full year’s cohort

• Thank you so much to everyone who administered the August and November BASIC Exams at your site

• We know it was a quick shift, but we appreciate you helping us accommodate residents during the pandemic

• We extended this year’s ITE administration window to provide you and your residents more flexibility during these trying times

• We’d like to hear your feedback on the helpfulness of this extension during such an anomalous time

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2021 VIRTUAL EXAMSMitigating COVID-19 impact on APPLIED Exams

• We decided to virtually assess all 2021 candidates to ensure candidates whose 2020 exams were cancelled and those who registered for 2021 exams can complete certification without delay

• Candidates who were displaced by the cancellation of last year’s APPLIED Exam will be assessed during the first half of 2021

• If you pass the APPLIED Exam before Dec. 31, 2021, and are certified in anesthesiology, we'll report your subspecialty exam results to you and if you pass you will also become certified in the subspecialty.

• If you do not pass the APPLIED Exam before Dec. 31, 2021, you will have an opportunity to take the APPLIED Exam again in 2022. We’ll report your subspecialty exam results to you when you become certified in anesthesiology.

• If you do not pass the APPLIED Exam before Dec. 31, 2022, your subspecialty exam results will be invalidated. You will then be required to be certified in anesthesiology to be eligible to register to retake the subspecialty exam.

PROGRAMS HAVE MORE TIME TO IMPLEMENT TRAINING

Application of Ultrasonography (Point-of-care Ultrasound)

Interpretation of Echocardiograms & Surface Ultrasound of Lung

Heart Transthoracic echocardiography images

Lung Lung and diaphragm ultrasound images

THE AIME CENTERFor in-person assessments

AIME Center Floor PLan

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POLICY EXCEPTIONSMitigating COVID-19 impact on trainees

• Added a year of candidate status for the following physicians to become certified in anesthesiology or subspecialty: – Residents graduating 2020 – 2024

– Fellows graduating 2020 – 2021

– Candidates currently in the exam system

– Candidates reestablishing eligibility for our exam system

ABSENCE FROM TRAINING POLICYTrainees requesting leave

EXAM UPDATES

BY TRAINING LEVEL & EXAM YEAR

2020 ITE TO 2020 AUGUST BASIC EXAMThe correlation between the 2020 ITE scaled scores and 2020 August BASIC Exam scaled Scores is 0.635, p < 0.001

Scaled

Score

Percentile

Rank in CA1N

2020 August

BASIC Scaled

Score Mean (S.D.)

BASIC

Pass Rate

≤25 ≤7 103 179(53) 60%

26-30 9-27 350 209(44) 82%

31-35 33-61 555 226(42) 93%

36-40 67-86 362 260(44) 99%

41-45 89-97 159 295(52) 100%

≥46 ≥98 42 352(52) 100%

2020 ITE TO 2020 AUGUST BASIC EXAM

2020 ITE TO 2020 JULY ADVANCED EXAMThe correlation between the 2020 ITE scaled scores and 2020 July ADVANCED Exam scaled Scores is 0.603, p < 0.001.

Scaled

Score

Percentile

Rank in CA3N

2020 July

ADVANCED Scaled

Score Mean (S.D.)

ADVANCED

Pass Rate

≤25 ≤1 9 162(42) 22%

26-30 1-6 82 193(44) 68%

31-35 8-28 380 215(41) 83%

36-40 35-64 564 237(42) 93%

41-45 70-89 388 265(43) 98%

≥46 ≥92 158 311(43) 100%

2020 ITE TO 2020 JULY ADVANCED EXAM

• Candidates took the exam at their program

• Key validation eliminated three items

• 90.3% of residents passed

NMean Scaled

Score

Standard

DeviationPass Rate Reliability

1,592 236.9 57.2 90.3% 0.83

• Candidates were assigned to examine on Friday or Saturday

• Key validation eliminated nine items

• 89.5% of candidates passed

NMean Scaled

Score

Standard

DeviationPass Rate Reliability

1,683 241.0 53.9 89.5% 0.77

• Candidates were assigned to examine on Friday or Saturday

• Key validation eliminated nine items

• 71.3% of candidates passed

NMean Scaled

Score

Standard

DeviationPass Rate Reliability

244 205.1 50.1 71.3% 0.82

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

ENHANCE QI/REGISTRY INTERFACE

INCORPORATE INTEGRATED LEARNING

DEVELOP NEW ASSESSMENT PLATFORMS

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FUTURE OF CONTINUING CERTIFICATION

• Earn CME for answering MOCA Minute questions

• Stay up to date with the Redesigned CME Explorer and Knowledge Assessment Report

• Answer MOCA Minute® questions

• See a snapshot of your MOCA status on the personalized dashboard

• Book virtual appointments with ABA staff to discuss your certification

MOCA 2.0What’s coming up in 2021

• MOCA 2.0 annual registration

• MOCA Minute weekly email reminders

• Quarterly MOCA progress reports

• New QI attestation

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