MOC records for Diplomates whose certification expires in 2025 must be submitted by November 1, 2025, 11:59 pm (ET). To help you prepare, here is a list of activities that may qualify for activity points toward maintenance of your certification. If you participated in any of these during your maintenance cycle, don’t forget to add them to your MOC record in CERT.
Quick ways to earn a few points before the deadline:
- Complete a course or laboratory
- Attend a webinar, including those offered through ACVS Digital Learning
- Attend a national or international conference/meeting, such as the ACVS Surgery Summit
Other qualifying activities include:
- Present a lecture on original work
- Present a poster or abstract
- Participate as a panelist
- Present a continuing education lecture or webinar
- Instruct a laboratory
- Author a case report or review article
- Author a textbook chapter
- Author an original manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal
- Author ACVS Animal Health Topics or Surgery STAT articles
- Pursue a master’s or doctoral degree
- Review manuscripts for a journal
- Edit a textbook
- Review ACVS Surgery Summit scientific abstracts
- Review Animal Health Topics or dvm360 articles
If you have any questions about your MOC record, please contact Leilani Shore, certification programs administrator, at lshore@acvs.org or (301) 916-0200 x121.
If you need technical assistance with the CERT system, please submit a help desk ticket at www.acvs.org/CERTsupport. Help desk tickets are assigned to ACVS staff members.
