Effective: June 25, 2022
The following changes will be made in order for ADS faculty certification data to better align with data received from ABMS and AOA and maintain consistency with manually entered data.
Previously entered ABMS Certified and AOA Certified program-reported data will be archived (excludes international faculty) in order to transition to the use of ABMS and AOA data. Programs should report through a manual entry any missing or inaccurate ABMS or AOA data only after verifying the faculty member's name and National Provider ID (NPI) in the faculty profile. If the NPI number is corrected, allow 24 hours for faculty certification to be updated in ADS.
ACGME-I: International faculty members should enter NPI (if available) to populate ABMS/AOA data. NPI is optional for international faculty. ABMS/AOA data will display if a match is found. If a match results in a duplicate with an ABMS/AOA manual entry, the manual entry may be deleted from the faculty profile. Previously entered ABMS/AOA manual entries will not be archived for ACGME-I programs.
Faculty profile --> Specialty Certification - Manual Entries - Label changes (add/edit/view):
- Specialty --> Certification Name
- Other Specialty --> Other Certification
- Certification Status --> Duration Type
- Initial Certification Year --> Initial Year
- Expiration Year --> End Year
Faculty profile Specialty Certification - Manual Entries - Dropdown option description changes:
- Certification type (US only):
- ABMS Certified [REMOVED]
- AOA Certified [REMOVED]
- ABMS missing/inaccurate data [ADDED]
- AOA missing/inaccurate data [ADDED]
- Duration Type (previously Certification Status):
- Time Limited/Initial Currently Valid --> Time-Limited
- Time-unlimited --> Lifetime
- MOC/CC --> MOC
- Certification Lapsed --> Expired
- Re-Certified [NO CHANGE]
Faculty roster "print" report:
The "print" report on the Faculty tab will continue to show all previously entered manual entries so programs can reference archived ABMS/AOA records, if necessary. The following disclaimer has been added to this report and the Cert Status column header has been updated to Duration Type:
While the ACGME transitions to using data from ABMS and AOA for faculty certification, this report will continue to show data that was manually entered prior to the transition (July 2022). Data from ABMS and AOA are not displayed on this report.
Summary/Updated Application tab - program summary print view:
- Data received from ABMS/AOA is now displayed in the roster for the program director, physician faculty members, and CV.
- The status (ACTIVE, INACTIVE, EXPIRED) received from ABMS/AOA will display in parenthesis in the Type column
- Faculty roster certification column header changes:
- Status --> Duration
- Faculty roster legend
- Certification Status --> Duration Type
- Legend Duration Type descriptions updated
Reports/Downloads:
- AOA data has been added to the ABMS Faculty Certification Download (now includes both ABMS and AOA). Manual entries will be added to this download at a later date (targeted mid-August 2022).
- Faculty Data download - certification data has been removed
Manually entered data for the following certification types will remain in the system and will still display in faculty profiles and on documentation:
- Other Certifying Body
- None
- RCPS(C)
- Not Certified
- ABMS Board Eligible
- AOA Board Eligible
- ABMS Certified/Not ABMS Certified [ACGME-I ONLY]