Practice Performance Assessment Modules (O-CAT)
for OCC component 4 requirement
www.ostcat.com
Cost
-$295 for 3 year subscription
Payment Method
-Credit card: physicians pay O-CAT directly
Clinical Practice Performance Assessments (PPAs)
- Available online through the O-CAT system
Core Competency
- Professionalism/Communication Training and PPA available now
- Additional modules will be loaded onto the system as they become available
Subscription
- Three years
- Boards are notified as diplomates sign up
- Physician has unlimited access to all PPAs for the specialty and Core Competencies
- Additional Core Competencies modules available for CME
- O-CAT system will update AOA’s OCC platform
- O-CAT data will appear on physician’s OCC status page
Clinical PPA Review
- PPAs are reviewed blind; submissions are de-identified when reviewed
Clinical PPA Process
- Physician subscribes to O-CAT system
- Physician chooses module for Component 4 compliance
- Physician completes chosen PPA module with consecutive charts from his/her practice
- Board is notified physician has completed module
- Reviewer approves PPA as complete or sends notification for remediation
- If remediation is required return to Step 3 and repeat to show improvement over first module completion
- AOA OCC software platform notified of successful module completion
- AOA assigns CME credit for successful module completion