All-Digital Format, Premium Features

ACP MKSAP is a subscription-based product, allowing you to choose between 1-year or 3-year terms, with value-priced renewals. Now with a single, all-digital format, ACP MKSAP’s state-of-the-art platform will offer all subscribers the premium version of MKSAP, including its highly structured and expert-created educational content and innovative and intuitive online learning features. As a longitudinal learning system, ACP MKSAP will be perpetually updated with practice-changing and other need-to-know information to support continual learning. ACP MKSAP’s features will include:

• Sixteen evidence-based subspecialty content areas with information in the core of internal medicine plus the latest updates essential to your practice
• A robust question bank, with nearly 2000 unique multiple-choice questions at launch that will be expanded each year
• Useful tools mirroring high-stakes testing, including option strikethrough and time elapsed question-answering indicator 
• More than 1000 adaptive learning-based digital flashcards 
• NEW! LKA prep custom quiz template option
• IM-ITE Feedback feature to help residents identify learning gaps
• Personalized Learning Plan with improved dashboard features for better tracking and organization of study goals
• Board Exam Topic Guide to easily locate high-yield ABIM topics within MKSAP 
• Highlighting for text and questions—in multiple colors
• More multimedia enhancements to reinforce key concepts and address a variety of learning styles
• Board Basics—MKSAP’s essential test-prep resource to supplement MKSAP learning
• MKSAP’s new Confirmation of Relevant Education (CORE) Questions—unlock additional questions to challenge yourself and earn badges and a certificate to document your learning  

A More Robust Question Bank

For the first time ever, ACP MKSAP will have one question bank with almost 2,000 questions of multiple formats at launch, including our traditional in-depth learning questions, Virtual Dx image-based questions, and MKSAP Quick Qs PLUS over 1,700 adaptive learning-based flashcards.

Our large question bank will perpetually grow, with new questions added each year to support ongoing learning. Answer questions randomly, by topic, or by using our custom quiz feature and easily retrieve previously answered questions with useful tools and identifiers. Choose from preset quiz templates or create your own. And, as always, take as many custom quizzes as you like, and track your quiz results over time!

LKA Prep Custom Quiz

ACP MKSAP will include a new custom quiz option that simulates aspects of the LKA. This option will create 30-question quizzes with a 4-minute timer per question with questions from across the MKSAP content areas to mirror the experience of answering your quarterly batch of LKA questions.

With MKSAP 19 Complete Green, you receive:

• Twelve syllabus sections organized by subspecialty area and regularly updated with New Info Updates.
• More than 3,000 unique questions in a variety of formats to test your knowledge
• Board Basics® study guide so you can supplement and reinforce your MKSAP 19 learning as you ramp up your study in preparation for exam day
• Virtual Dx to test your visual acumen—ideal for the visual aspects of the exam
• Earn-As-You-Go CME and MOC—easy to pace yourself one question at a time! Submit after you answer each question and stay on track to meet your MOC and CME requirements.
• NEW! CORE (Confirmation of Relevant Education) Questions (Pilot) that you unlock after reaching a certain progress threshold in answering MKSAP 19 self-assessment questions. Answer these additional CORE questions to earn badges in each of the 12 subspecialty areas.

Residents

ACP MKSAP provides thousands of unique questions to test your knowledge, high-yield syllabus content, and valuable features to kick-start your learning, including:  

• Custom Quizzes. Unlike other study products, ACP MKSAP does not limit your ability to create custom quizzes. Create unlimited quizzes to assess your progress, identify learning gaps, or dive into specific content areas. Choose between study and exam mode and use a variety of filters to get the best review. Save your quizzes to monitor longitudinal progress.
• Personalized Learning Plan. Create a customized course of study based on your strengths and weaknesses by using the ACP MKSAP Personalized Learning Plan. Link to related text, questions, Board Basics content, and other rich ACP educational resources—such as Annals' In The Clinic, ACP guidelines, podcasts, and more—to extend your learning. 
• IM-ITE Feedback. Customize your Learning Plan based on feedback from your IM-ITE results.
• Board Basics. Board Basics offers an efficient and intensive Board prep study guide designed for maximizing retention before your upcoming assessment. Board Basics is filled with bulleted lists, highlighting, and tips to keep you focused on successful test-taking strategies for exam day.
• Strikethrough and Highlighting. Strikethrough answer options as you work through questions, and organize your notes with multiple highlighter color options to focus your study approach and easily access and review your notes on your own schedule.
• Question Time Elapsed. See how long it takes to answer each question to assess your pace and make adjustments as needed.

Internal Medicine Physicians—MOC Candidates

MKSAP is the most trusted resource for internal medicine physicians. Whether preparing for exam day, updating your knowledge, or earning your CME credit and MOC points, you know MKSAP will help you meet all your goals.

• Earn-As-You-Go CME and MOC. Whether you prefer to submit after you complete an entire subspecialty content area or only a couple of questions, it’s easy and seamless to submit for CME and MOC with the Earn-As-You-Go feature. 
• Opt-In for MOC Points. Opt-in once for automatic MOC submission any time you submit for CME. 
• Custom Quizzes. Create unlimited quizzes to assess your progress, identify areas of weakness, or take a deep dive into specific content areas. Choose between study and exam mode and use a variety of filters to get the best review. Review your archived quizzes to assess your longitudinal progress. With ACP MKSAP, there is NEVER any limit on the number of quizzes you can take!
• Personalized Learning Plan. As part of a self-directed learning approach, create a customized course of study based on your strengths and weaknesses with the ACP MKSAP Personalized Learning Plan. Link to related text, questions, and other helpful ACP content to reinforce your learning.
• Board Basics. Board Basics offers an efficient and intensive Board prep review designed to maximize retention before your upcoming assessment. Board Basics is replete with tips and successful test-taking strategies on exam day. Refer to Board Basics’ highly structured content and concise explanations as an open-book resource during your exam.
• Board Exam Topic Guide. With this interactive guide, you can easily locate high-yield ABIM blueprint topics within MKSAP to streamline your study approach or find content as an open-book resource during your exam.
• CORE (Confirmation of Relevant Education) Questions. After you surpass the threshold of correctly answered questions in a given subspecialty area, you will be able to unlock additional bonus questions to challenge yourself and earn a badge in that subject area, and, ultimately, earn a certificate documenting your learning achievement. (The CORE feature will launch in April 2025).

Internal Medicine Physicians—LKA Pathway Participants

ACP MKSAP helps you identify gaps, create learning plans, implement a study approach, and review your progress—a full-cycle continuous learning approach conducive to completing the LKA. MKSAP prepares you in advance of the LKA, serves as a trusted reference while answering LKA questions, and allows you to build on your knowledge in specific topic areas while earning CME credit and MOC points.

New! ACP MKSAP will include a custom quiz to help you simulate answering LKA questions. When selecting this quiz option, you will receive a quiz consisting of 30 questions, with a 4-minute timer set for each question.

Ways to use ACP MKSAP for the LKA pathway include:

Before answering an LKA question on a random topic:

• Access the Board Exam Topic Guide to review commonly tested topics. This guide will inform you on the testing frequency and importance of specific topics in the ABIM exam blueprint with direct links to related content within MKSAP.
• Gauge your knowledge with MKSAP’s traditional learning questions, or by taking a custom quiz selecting randomized topics.
• Build your Personalized Learning Plan to target areas for more in-depth review.
• Earn CME and MOC one question at a time with the Earn-As-You-Go CME feature.

While answering an LKA question:

• Use the Board Exam Topic Guide feature to efficiently find reference content for that topic within the ACP MKSAP syllabus.

After answering an LKA question:

• The Board Exam Topic Guide will help you zero in on syllabus content that can reinforce and expand your understanding of the tested topic, and help you understand the types of questions that might be asked again about that topic.
• Add topics to your Personalized Learning Plan to track for further study, and view suggested additional resources available for further review.
• Create custom quizzes around selected topics.
• Earn CME and MOC by answering additional questions reinforcing the topic.

Educators

The ACP MKSAP Residency Program Tracker enables residency programs to assess potential knowledge gaps and create learning assignments as residents work through MKSAP’s learning platform.

Features include the ability to:

• Customize question assignments based on ACP MKSAP subspecialty topic or on proficiency in answering ACP MKSAP’s self-assessment question scores.
• Measure learning improvement by creating pre- and post-intervention question assignments.
• Review residents’ responses to individual questions to identify incorrectly selected distractors and address potentially confusing points.
• Review aggregate data to identify areas for potential curricular adjustment.
• NEW! Residents and educators can choose from ACP MKSAP’s traditional self-assessment questions, Virtual Dx multiple-choice questions, or Quick Qs as part of Residency Tracker monitoring and assignments. 

Programs can save more on ACP MKSAP when they order subscriptions for their residents. Group discounts begin for orders of 10 or more subscriptions. To learn more, please contact ACP’s Member and Product Support at 800-ACP-1915 (800-227-1915) or 215-351-2600 (M—F, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. ET).

Accreditation Information

The American College of Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Physicians designates this enduring material for a maximum of 300 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 300 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.