Hot Topics Cardiologists Love to Hate: MOC and AI

This transcript has been edited for clarity.

From theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, this is The Bob Harrington Show. Dr Robert Harrington is the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine and provost for medical affairs of Cornell University. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. Any views expressed are the presenter's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of WebMD or Medscape.

Robert A. Harrington, MD: Hi. This is Bob Harrington from Weill Cornell Medicine. Here on Medscape Cardiology | theheart.org, my friend Mike Gibson and I are doing our annual wrap-up of the trials and news of cardiovascular medicine, this time for 2023. We've been doing this, Mike, for a number of years. Part 1 was devoted to the three major cardiovascular meetings (ACC, ESC, and AHA) and some of the hot news coming out of those.

Now, we're going to focus on another couple of issues. I've asked Mike to stick around and have a conversation with me about maintenance of certification (MOC) and the decision by the professional societies in cardiology, plus the AHA, to support formation of a new cardiovascular medicine boardseparate from the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). I thought Mike would also throw in a little conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) and where we might see things going in the years ahead.