The Amplifying Continuing Education (ACE) pilot program is an innovative enhancement to ABOG's Continuing Certification (CC) process. It aims to identify and close knowledge gaps for diplomates through zero-pressure knowledge gap questions, without requiring additional work.
The ACE pilot program will be launched in January 2026.
- Diplomates will answer the same number of CC questions (120 total)
- They will read fewer articles (10 instead of 15) and answer 6 scored questions per article (60 total)
- They will answer 60 ACE knowledge gap questions, which are unscored
- Questions are customized to specific areas of interest collected during the CC application process. Diplomates are committed to those specific ACE areas of interest throughout the remainder of the year
- There is no time limit on answering ACE questions
- Diplomates can use any resources to support answering ACE questions
- Immediate and personalized feedback is provided (correct vs incorrect answers)
- End-of-year feedback includes peer comparison and overall feedback by category
- No changes to annual score requirements (80% minimum score to pass CC Part II and 86% minimum score for Performance Pathway participants)
The pilot program will be evaluated at the end of 2026, and official program implementation will be based on pilot evaluation data in January 2027.
Diplomates will receive email messages containing links to all ACE resources, including FAQs on abog.org, September, December, and early January 2026. Information about ACE will appear in the winter issue of the diplomate newsletter.
Diplomates can visit the ACE overview page on abog.org for more information. If they still have questions, they can visit the Contact Us page and select “Continuing Certification” as the topic and then select “ACE Pilot” for type of inquiry.
No, there are no changes to the annual article score requirements. Diplomates must achieve an 80% minimum score to pass CC Part II and an 86% minimum score for Performance Pathway participants.
Yes, diplomates can use any resources to support answering ACE questions.
Yes, diplomates will receive immediate and personalized feedback on their ACE questions, including correct vs incorrect answers. End-of-year feedback will also include peer comparison and overall feedback by category.