• Glenn Rosenbluth, Jeffrey A Tabas, and Robert B Baron.
• G. Rosenbluth is associate professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and director of quality and safety programs, Office of Graduate Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. J.A. Tabas is professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and director of outcomes and innovations, Office of Continuing Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California. R.B. Baron is professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and associate dean of graduate and continuing medical education, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California.
• Acad Med. 2016 Jan 1; 91 (1): 56-9.

ProblemResidents are required to engage in quality improvement (QI) activities, which requires faculty engagement. Because of increasing program requirements and clinical demands, faculty may be resistant to taking on additional teaching and supervisory responsibilities without incentives. The authors sought to create an authentic benefit for University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Pediatrics Residency Training Program faculty who supervise pediatrics residents' QI projects by offering maintenance of certification (MOC) Part 4 (Performance in Practice) credit.ApproachThe authors identified MOC as an ideal framework to both more actively engage faculty who were supervising QI projects and provide incentives for doing so. To this end, in 2011, the authors designed an MOC portfolio program which included faculty development, active supervision of residents, and QI projects designed to improve patient care.OutcomesThe UCSF Pediatrics Residency Training Program's Portfolio Sponsor application was approved by the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) in 2012, and faculty whose projects were included in the application were granted MOC Part 4 credit. As of December 2013, six faculty had received MOC Part 4 credit for their supervision of residents' QI projects.Next StepsBased largely on the success of this program, UCSF has transitioned to the MOC portfolio program administered through the American Board of Medical Specialties, which allows the organization to offer MOC Part 4 credit from multiple specialty boards including the ABP. This may require refinements to screening, over sight, and reporting structures to ensure the MOC standards are met. Ongoing faculty development will be essential.

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