Welcome to the FSMB's Maintenance of Licensure (MOL) Information Center. At this website you will find resources to help you understand MOL.
What is Maintenance of Licensure?
As the focus on health care quality and patient safety has increased in the United States, the Federation of State Medical Boards and its member state medical boards have been considering initiatives aimed at enhancing quality, safety and physician practice improvement by requiring a verifiable system of lifelong learning as a condition of license renewal.
Under the current licensure renewal system, physicians are required by a majority of state medical and osteopathic boards to self-report their engagement in continuing medical education activities. Under FSMB's proposed system, known as Maintenance of Licensure (MOL), current requirements will be expanded by having physicians participate in a more robust program of continuous professional development that is relevant to their areas of practice, measured against objective data sources and aimed at improving performance over time. When fully implemented, MOL will encourage and support lifelong learning by all of the nation's licensed physicians and create a system to confirm their practice improvement efforts.
The FSMB formally adopted a policy on MOL in April 2010, and is now assisting the nation's medical boards as they consider implementation of state MOL policies. This website provides information about the FSMB's MOL initiative, as well as other related background materials.
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