SAMs Availablility
At its May 2008 meeting, the American Board of Pathology voted to waive Part II
MOC requirements for SAMs through 2009. Diplomates with time-limited
certificates are still required to obtain an average of 35 CME credits per year.
The ABP encourages all diplomates to participate in SAMs where these are
available in your area of practice and if you take CME with SAMs credits, you
may of course submit these as part of your Part II requirement. However, you
will not be required to submit SAMs as part of your MOC requirements until 2010.
Please do not send in transcripts of your CME activities for 2006-2008. By the
time these are due, we hope that you will be able to report them electronically.
If not, we will post a form for you to complete and return via e-mail.
ASCP has information regarding their e-courses which qualify as SAMs and other
SAMs offerings on its web site in the Maintenance of Certification section. CAP
is still working on their SAMs offerings. USCAP has the most extensive offering
of SAMs at this time and a link is available to these from their home page. They
will be adding a large number of on-line SAMs courses if they have not done so
already.
The ABP anticipates that electronic reporting of CME and SAMs will be available
by the end of 2008. If it is not, we will post a form that can be downloaded,
completed, and mailed in.
SAMs Links
American Society for Clinical Pathology
http://www.ascp.org/511live/timssnet/course_flash/course_home.cfm
http://www.ascp.org/education/liveEvents/educationalCourses.aspx
http://www.ascp.org/education/selfStudyPublications/checkSample/default.aspx
http://www.ascp.org/education/assessment/checkPath/default.aspx
American Society of Cytopathology
http://www.cytopathology.org/website/article.asp?id=173
http://www.cytopathology.org/website/article.asp?id=176
http://www.cytopathology.org/website/article.asp?id=1034
College of American Pathologists
http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=education
Society for Pediatric Pathology
http://www.spponline.org/2008SpringPrelimProg.pdf
US-Canadian Academy of Pathology
http://www.uscap.org
Click on SAMs Courses in the menu on the left.
This page was last modified on September 2, 2008.