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The ABPTS Maintenance of Specialist Certification (MOSC) is a model for certification that focuses on continuing competence of the physical therapist specialist.
This page covers MOSC Requirement 4: Year 10 Non-Proctored Knowledge Review.
Knowledge Review
MOSC Knowledge Review Overview Presentation
During year 10 of the certification cycle, you must to take a knowledge review, comprising 100 multiple choice items. The review is specialty-specific, assesses your cognitive expertise in the specialty area, and reflects contemporary specialist practice.
The goal of the review, and maintenance program generally, is to facilitate continued competence, and designed to educate and enrich the clinician’s expertise in the specialty practice area.
Each specialty recertification review blueprint will be consistent to include the following 3 general categories:
- Knowledge Areas
- Professional Roles, Responsibilities and Values
- Patient/Client Management
Prerequisite
You must successfully complete Requirements 1-3 before taking the knowledge review. If you fail to receive a passing score after the first attempt, you are permitted to sit for the review one additional time. You will maintain your certification during this one-year grace period.
What You Need To Know About the Review
- The knowledge review is non-proctored.
- Specialists are permitted to use external resources and reference materials. Click on your specialty below for the MOSC knowledge review content outline and list of suggested references from each ABPTS specialty panel:
- The review is comprised of 100 multiple choice items. Specialists are provided questions in four blocks with 25 questions per session block. There will be no video items included.
- Specialists will be given up to 12 minutes to complete each item on the review.
- Specialists are given up to eight months to complete the review, and may move through the review at their own pace. However, once a question has been answered a specialist may not return to that question.
- Specialists will be granted the opportunity to request that provisions be made to account for "life-events” that might impede their ability to complete any portion of the knowledge review cycle in the 10th or 11th years.
PSI Browser Requirements for the MOSC Knowledge Review
Please click here to be redirected to the PSI website providing more detailed information regarding the browser requirements to take the MOSC knowledge review.
