You actually think me logging on to an app every few days to answer multiple choice questions accomplishes anything?
Like just about everything you write here, this question is a mixture of ridiculous, obtuse, and argumentative for the sake of argument.
And yes, I was explicit and very specific in what I think MOCA Minute accomplishes. I'll write it again. Maybe reading it twice will enhance comprehension:
1) Compared to the q10year recert exam it is less painful. I can do MOCA Minute any time, anywhere, without any kind of preparation or effort. I don't have to make an appointment to go to a Prometric or similar computer testing center to take a high stakes exam that demands preparation and effort.
2) It demonstrates to legislators and laypeople that we're enforcing
some kind of standard for maintenance of board certification.
Unless you're one of those nuts who think board certification is meaningless, then yes, obviously, of course MOCA accomplishes
something.
And while I do find some of the MOCA Minute questions a little pedantic and not clearly relevant to my practice, for the questions I do miss, the explanations are usually worth a quick read. I find learning things to be an appropriate use of my time.
If you are credentialing doctors who are dangerous you may have to re think your credentialing process
Please. Unless you're a complete fraud and not a doctor at all, then you've gone through the credentialing process at least once in your life. It's a bunch of attestations and other garbage, with a couple peer references[1], some verification of prior education, and some questions about past malpractice claims that are never/rarely actually disqualifying.
If a hospital needs help, they can get you "emergency" credentials in days. Credentialing very much depends on how much an institution needs help balanced against their risk tolerance. And here's a little secret: that process is mostly there to aid their eventual claim of non-negligence, to defend of the institution if they're named in a claim because of one of their credentialed physicians. "See, we did our due diligence, we didn't know he was a hack!"
[1] You think MOCA is a joke? Peer references are the ultimate joke! How stupid is it that we let people cherrypick one or two friends to say nice or not-negative things about them?