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

  1. Physician subscribes to O-CAT system
  2. Physician chooses module for Component 4 compliance
  3. Physician completes chosen PPA module with consecutive charts from his/her practice
  4. Board is notified physician has completed module
  5. Reviewer approves PPA as complete or sends notification for remediation
  6. If remediation is required return to Step 3 and repeat to show improvement over first module completion
  7. AOA OCC software platform notified of successful module completion
  8. AOA assigns CME credit for successful module completion