If I Fail Geriatric Boards Can I Take Them Again
TAKE THE WHEEL WITH THE NEW LKA
The new Longitudinal Cognition Cess (LKA), launching in 2022, puts you lot in command past offer greater flexibility and faster feedback. Learn more below. Still have questions? Bank check out our new LKA microsite for more than answers.
If you're interested in participating in the Longitudinal Knowledge Cess (LKATM) and due for an assessment in 2022 in that location's nevertheless fourth dimension equally the last day to enroll is six/30/22. Please note you tin can but outset the LKA in your cess due year, and since the first quarter has already closed, those xxx questions are no longer accessible and volition count against the 100 y'all can cull non to open over your 5-year bicycle.
And call up, because a pass/neglect conclusion isn't made until the end of the five-year cycles, as long every bit y'all are already certified and go along to see the LKA Participation Requirement and any other MOC requirements, yous'll be reported as certified the entire time. Even better, the LKA is included at no extra charge as part of your MOC fees.
The LKA was designed with physicians' personal and professional needs in mind: greater flexibility, more convenience, increased relevancy and faster feedback. Learn more than via the FAQs below, or cheque out our defended LKA website. The traditional, 10-year MOC exam will also remain bachelor as an assessment option.
Availability
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What are my ABIM assessment options?
ABIM offers multiple ways to maintain your certification. Use the interactive tool below to select your specialty from the dropdown, then detect your due year to acquire more well-nigh your assessment options. One time you select a specialty, a second tool volition display, making it easy to compare two or more specialties at a fourth dimension if you maintain multiple certificates.
To find your specific due dates, delight sign into your personalized Physician Portal.
When will the LKA be available in my specialty?
Three specialties—Disquisitional Care Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Pulmonary Disease—will launch in 2023. Recruitment for volunteers to help write ABIM test questions typically starts in the spring, which would have occurred during the early on phases of the COVID-nineteen pandemic. ABIM leadership consulted with physicians currently serving on its Exam Committees and Item Writing Task Forces in these disciplines, and recognizing the increased clinical obligations they were facing, decided that information technology was not the correct time to pull them away from patient intendance to help with question development. Whatsoever currently certified physician in these three specialties who had an assessment due in 2020, 2021 or 2022 can look and enroll in the longitudinal assessment when it becomes available to them in 2023.
Diplomates in the Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine (FPHM) programme who had an assessment due in 2020, 2021 or 2022 can also wait to have an cess in 2023, however their assessment options may be changing. Learn more than hither.
The LKA requires essentially more items compared to the traditional, x-year MOC examination and won't be available in sure specialties (Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Advanced Eye Failure and Transplant Cardiology and Transplant Hepatology) because there are fewer physicians maintaining certification in these highly specialized areas. Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology will not be bachelor at launch but will be revaluated for 2024.
In Cardiovascular Affliction, Avant-garde Centre Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology, the ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway will be bachelor.
All diplomates will continue to have the traditional, 10-year MOC exam available.
Eligibility & Enrollment
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Am I eligible to take the LKA?
In one case the LKA launches in your specialty, you volition exist eligible to start.
- All board certified physicians, except those in a grace year, can showtime participating in the LKA in their assessment due year. Physicians will continue to be reported as "Certified" equally long as they are meeting the Participation Requirement, and a decision on their performance is fabricated in the 5th year. Y'all won't be able to outset LKA before your assessment due year.
- Physicians who earned their document prior to 1990 can apply the LKA to help them meet their MOC Participation Requirement. No dr. with a lifetime certification volition ever lose certification due to not meeting an assessment requirement.
- The LKA tin can be used to regain certification if it is available in your specialty; however, please annotation that considering a decision on performance is not made until the stop of the fiveth year of participation, a physician will be reported every bit "Non Certified" until that time. Your status will just change at that time if you pass the LKA and are coming together all other MOC requirements. A md whose certification has lapsed may employ the traditional, x-year MOC exam to restore certification more than apace.
- Any physician in their grace year is ineligible for the LKA and must pass the traditional, ten-yr MOC exam by the end of their grace twelvemonth to continue to be reported as "Certified."
- Diplomates from co-sponsored ABMS Member Boards will be able to participate in the LKA if it is bachelor in their specialty.
My certification is lapsed. How tin I meet my assessment requirement?
Physicians whose certification has lapsed can meet their assessment requirement by passing one traditional, ten-year MOC examination or by successfully participating in the Longitudinal Cognition Assessment (LKA™) if information technology is bachelor in your specialty. However, because a decision on performance is non fabricated until the end of the 5th year of the LKA cycle, such physicians choosing the LKA cannot regain certification for at least 5 years. Your condition will just change at that time if you pass the LKA and are meeting all other MOC requirements.
What if my assessment was due in 2020?
Due to the unprecedented demands of COVID-19, ABIM appear that physicians with an MOC requirement, including assessments, attestations or points due in 2020 or 2021, will accept until 12/31/22 to consummate them. Note: The ii-yr Cognition Check-In is no longer offered. Learn more about your cess options.
If you passed the KCI in 2020, your side by side assessment is due in 2024, at which point you can start participating in the LKA (awaiting availability in your specialty).
If you passed the traditional, ten-year MOC exam in 2020, your next cess is due in 10 years, at which point you tin cull between the LKA (if it's available in your specialty) or go along to accept the traditional, x-twelvemonth MOC exam.
Sign in to your personalized Physician Portal to view upcoming requirements and due dates.
What if my assessment was due in 2021?
Due to the unprecedented demands of COVID-19, ABIM announced that physicians with an assessment, attestation or points due in 2020 or 2021 will have until 12/31/22 to complete them.
If you passed the KCI in 2021, your next assessment is due in 2025, at which point you can start participating in the LKA (pending availability in your specialty).
If yous passed the traditional, x-year MOC examination in 2021, your next cess is due in 10 years, at which point y'all can choose betwixt the LKA (if information technology'due south available in your specialty) or continue to take the traditional, 10-twelvemonth MOC exam.
What if I am a cardiologist in the ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway?
ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway will remain an option for those currently board certified in cardiovascular disease or a cardiology subspecialty to meet their assessment requirement.
In add-on to the Collaborative Maintenance Pathway, full general cardiologists and cardiology subspecialists will be able to take the traditional, ten-year MOC exam in Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology and Advanced Middle Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
Sign in to your personalized Doctor Portal to view requirements, due dates and assessment options. Delight note that ABIM is in the process of updating due dates in your portal to reflect the extension.
Getting Ready for 2022
- If you had an MOC requirement due in 2020 or 2021—including points, assessments or attestations—you take until 12/31/22 to complete these requirements in calorie-free of COVID-xix. This means you tin can choose non to take an assessment in 2021 and participate in the LKA starting time in 2022, pending availability.
- If you are currently ABIM Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine, Infectious disease or Pulmonary Disease and you are due for an cess in 2020, 2021 or 2022, you lot can wait and participate in the LKA when it launches in your specialty in 2023 if you'd similar. Y'all tin besides choose the traditional, 10-year MOC exam at that time. More information for diplomates in the FPHM program can be found here.
- The Cognition Check-In is no longer offered, and the new LKA has taken its place equally an alternative to the traditional, ten-year MOC examination, which volition continue to be an cess option.
When tin I enroll?
Enrollment opens 12/1/21 for all 2022 ABIM assessments. The final day to enroll in the LKA for 2022 is 6/30/22. Please note that since questions are delivered on a quarterly footing, delaying enrollment may mean less time to answer questions, or that some questions expired at the stop of the previous quarter. If you're a diplomate from a co-sponsored board, delight contact your certifying board to ostend if LKA will be offered as an assessment option.
Tin I switch to the traditional, 10-year MOC exam if the LKA isn't working for me?
In one case y'all're enrolled in the LKA, as long as you're meeting the LKA Participation Requirement and whatsoever other MOC requirements, you'll continue to exist publicly reported as Certified for your unabridged v-year bicycle. But if y'all're finding that LKA isn't working for you lot and you'd adopt to take the traditional, ten-year MOC exam sooner, yous tin unenroll and register for an exam through your personalized ABIM Doctor Portal.
Tin can I enroll in the LKA while my MOC test results are pending?
No. Y'all will not be able to enroll in the LKA while your exam results are pending. One time the exam results have been released, if y'all happen to be unsuccessful and wish to switch to the LKA, you lot can practice so as long equally it not beyond the June xxx, 2022 LKA enrollment borderline. Exam results can take upwardly to three months to be released. This means that the exam results could be pending beyond the aforementioned deadline, and you could not switch to the LKA. In this example, you would notwithstanding have the opportunity to take the Traditional, ten-year MOC examination or Collaborative Maintenance Pathway (CMP).
How the LKA works
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What are the features of the LKA?
Use the LKA to meet your MOC assessment requirement and earn MOC points.
* Participation Requirement includes born flexibility to allow for life's circumstances, such as short-term medical issues, vacations, weddings, funerals, or other personal events.
How should I prepare for the LKA?
As a longitudinal assessment, the LKA is designed to help you measure out your medical knowledge over time. This means you'll accept the opportunity to modify your arroyo and meliorate your operation during your 5-year cycle if you lot find you're non performing at the level you expected.
While the LKA is intended to exist both a learning tool and an assessment focused on medical knowledge that a physician typically wouldn't demand to enquiry extensively in twenty-four hours-to-twenty-four hours practice, you should all the same take it seriously and treat it similar an assessment. Some physicians may observe that their typical arroyo to keeping current with medical knowledge is constructive and no additional studying is required. Others may want to use the feedback provided as part of the LKA to address knowledge gaps to ensure that their knowledge remains wide and electric current. This feedback includes the correct respond to the question, the rationale for the right and wrong answers, and references.
In addition, your interim score written report (offered at the end of the offset quarter of the 2d twelvemonth of your LKA participation, and every quarter afterwards) will requite you lot helpful information to re-adjust your approach and focus your studies as needed. You lot are encouraged to try the LKA and see what works best for you.
And remember, considering a pass/fail decision isn't made until the end of 5 years, as long every bit you continue to run into the LKA Participation Requirement (open up at to the lowest degree 500 out of 600 questions over 5 years) your certification condition won't exist affected before then. Acquire more than about what happens at the end of your five-year wheel.
What is the LKA Participation Requirement?
ABIM understands that "life happens," sometimes unexpectedly. That's why the LKA Participation Requirement includes built-in flexibility to let for life's circumstances, such equally short-term medical issues, vacations, weddings, funerals, or other personal events.
Over the course of 5 years, y'all'll be offered 600 questions and must open at least 500 to meet the LKA Participation Requirement.
You lot'll receive 30 questions at the start of each quarter, and can answer them whatsoever time earlier the end of that quarter. Y'all'll accept 4 minutes per question, and can reply ane at a time, in batches, or whatever works best for you lot.
At the cease of each quarter:
- Questions you take opened will be scored.
- Questions you have not opened will count toward the maximum of 100 full questions y'all don't have to open up over 5 years.
Please notation any unopened questions will not exist scored and expire at the end of the quarter, pregnant you lot tin can't come back to them later.
If you need a break, but don't open the questions – up to 100 over your 5-year LKA bicycle – because once you open a question, it will be scored fifty-fifty if you don't respond it. And don't worry, you'll become notifications near how many questions you've opened and how many are remaining in your five-year LKA cycle to help y'all stay on runway.
If you don't meet the Participation Requirement ABIM will allow you know, and you'll be able to have the traditional, 10-year MOC exam to stay certified.
What is the LKA Performance Standard?
The LKA performance standard indicates the score you lot must meet at the stop of your 5-year bicycle to maintain your certification. While you will receive formative feedback on how yous are doing along the way, including how you are performing relative to the performance standard, a summative decision is fabricated at the end of the 5th year.
If your score meets or exceeds the performance standard, you can continue with the LKA. Failure to meet the performance standard does not result in loss of certification, notwithstanding, you lot must pass the traditional, 10-twelvemonth MOC test the following yr to remain certified.
What happens at the cease of my 5-year cycle?
A summative, pass/fail conclusion is made at the end of your five-year cycle.
If you pass:
- Y'all can cull to continue the LKA, and would begin your adjacent 5-yr wheel the following twelvemonth. You would proceed to exist reported as certified throughout that 5-year cycle as long as y'all are meeting whatsoever other MOC requirements.
- Or, y'all could choose to have the traditional, 10-yr MOC exam the following year instead. You lot will be reported as certified during that year, and if y'all pass, your next assessment volition exist due in x years.
If yous do not pass:
- Y'all will enter the grace period, meaning y'all volition have i twelvemonth to take and laissez passer the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. You volition keep to be reported as certified during the grace menstruum as long equally you lot are coming together all other MOC requirements.
What if I am maintaining more than one document?
Nosotros understand many physicians maintain certification in more than one discipline. At launch the number of questions offered through the LKA will be the same for all specialties. We are exploring models that may let us to reduce the number of questions for disciplines that have overlapping content in the futurity.
One benefit of using LKA for multiple certificates is that you'll all the same receive 0.2 MOC points for every correct respond, giving yous even more than opportunities to earn points. Recall: you merely need to earn a total of 100 MOC points over v years, no matter how many certificates you lot're maintaining.
ABIM volition proceed to offer you choice in which assessment choice works best for you lot: the traditional 10-year MOC exam or, depending on discipline, the LKA. Cardiologists volition too take the ABIM/ACC Collaborative Maintenance Pathway bachelor.
Whichever assessment selection yous cull, they all provide a mode for you to know and demonstrate to your patients that you're keeping your medical cognition current.
Will I get a new printed certificate if I participate in LKA?
- If yous earned your document prior to 1990 yous will be issued a new printed certificate of appreciation afterward successfully completing your commencement year of LKA participation. As a reminder, if you were certified prior to 1990 your certificate is valid indefinitely.
- If your certificate is not lapsed and has an expiration date on it, y'all will be issued a new printed certificate afterwards successfully completing your showtime twelvemonth of LKA participation then long as all other MOC requirements are upward to date. Your new document will remain valid as long as y'all run into MOC requirements.
- If you
- earned your Focused Practise in Hospital Medicine document in 2010 or later;
- earned your initial certification in whatsoever other discipline in 2013 or afterward; or,
- completed MOC requirements (recertified) in 2014 or later;
your certificate is valid as long as you lot meet MOC requirements, and you will not be issued a new printed document.
How Questions Work
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How many questions do I need to respond?
You'll receive 30 questions at the offset of each quarter, and can respond them any time before the end of that quarter. You'll have four minutes per question, and can answer one at a fourth dimension, in batches, or whatever works all-time for you.
At the end of each quarter:
- Questions y'all have opened will be scored.
- Questions you have not opened volition count toward the maximum of 100 full questions you don't have to open over 5 years.
Please note any unopened questions will not exist scored and expire at the end of the quarter, meaning you tin't come back to them later.
Over the form of five years, you'll be offered 600 questions and must open at least 500 to see the LKA Participation Requirement.
Questions are multiple choice, single all-time answer similar those on the traditional, ten-year MOC test. The number of questions is the same for all specialties.
What is the 2022 question release schedule?
| Quarter | Opens | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| i | ane/iv/22 | 3/31/22 |
| ii | 4/1/22 | half-dozen/xxx/22 |
| 3 | 7/1/22 | 9/30/22 |
| 4 | 10/1/22 | 12/31/22 |
Reminder: The last day to enroll in LKA in 2022 is 6/xxx/22. If yous are planning to participate in the LKA, information technology is a good idea to start early then you don't miss whatsoever questions. Questions expire at the end of each quarter and you tin can't go back to answer them later. Whatsoever unopened questions will count against the 100 you tin can cull not to open over 5 years.
Tin I earn MOC points past answering questions?
You'll receive 0.2 MOC points for every question you reply correctly. Yous'll be offered 600 questions per 5-year assessment cycle, so over fourth dimension you could potentially meet your MOC betoken requirement through LKA participation alone. Points you lot've earned will be awarded and added to your personalized ABIM Dr. Portal quarterly.
If you lot participate in the LKA for more than than ane of your certificates you'll even so receive 0.2 MOC points for every right answer, giving you even more opportunities to earn points. Remember: you just need to earn a full of 100 MOC points over 5 years, no matter how many certificates you lot're maintaining.
Please notation your five-year assessment wheel and your 5-yr points cycle may or may not align. Y'all can however earn MOC points outside the LKA through thousands of activities eligible for both CME and MOC. Acquire more at abim.org/points.
How much time do I have per question?
You'll accept 4 minutes to answer a question and, each year, have admission to a thirty-minute time bank you can draw from if you demand extra time on a particular question. This time allotment per question was derived by analyzing data from previous ABIM exams that immune physicians to access an external resource. Information technology also aligns with the construct of a longitudinal assessment in that it measures what physicians should know to provide high-quality patient care and emulates the finite time they have to look up data in practise.
What happens if I run out of time answering a question?
If the question time expires before an respond is selected, the question will exist marked incorrect and you will be directed to the mail-question survey and firsthand feedback. If you select an answer but question time expires before you are able to click submit, the selected response will be recorded.
What is the content of the LKA?
The LKA volition use the existing MOC test blueprints to inform its content. In other words, the major medical content categories in any given specialty volition exist the same for all MOC assessments.
ABIM assessments are confidential, in add-on to beingness protected by federal copyright and trade secret laws. Candidates and diplomates who undertake assessments concord that they volition not copy, reproduce, arrange, disembalm or transmit assessments, in whole or in part, before or after taking an assessment, by whatever ways now known or hereafter invented. They further concur that they will not reconstruct assessment content from retentivity, by dictation, or by any other ways or otherwise discuss cess content with others.
Performance Feedback
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When will I get feedback on each question?
For the majority of questions, yous will receive feedback immediately subsequently responding to each question. For a small portion of pre-test questions, immediate feedback is non provided.
When will my question history be available in my Review Tab and how long will it be there?
Yous will have access to your question history, which lists your questions with answers, rationales and references, about six months after you beginning the cess and and so quarterly thereafter. All live questions will show up in your question history about 3 months after the quarter closes, and will exist bachelor for one year.
Why am I asked to complete a postal service-question survey?
Nosotros ask yous about frequency/importance/confidence and then you tin can later filter your item history and pinpoint areas to focus your review. In add-on, we use these data to ameliorate understand how pertinent each question is to your practice. Please notation, your feedback will never be used toward your score and will remain bearding.
Why are there pre-test questions and why practice I not get feedback for some of them?
Offering pretest questions is the best do in assessment evolution and allows testing of new questions without take chances to the candidate. These pretest questions are not counted in your score. Each pretest question is assessed according to statistical performance criteria. If these questions accept acceptable statistics, they can be used in the time to come every bit live, scoreable questions.
Firsthand feedback (answer, rationale and references) is currently provided for some pretest questions, and not for a small number of others, then that ABIM can evaluate the best way to administrate new questions in the future.
Accommodations
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Tin can I request an accommodation for the LKA?
Yes. ABIM volition offer LKA accommodations in compliance with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for individuals with documented disabilities who demonstrate a need for accommodation. Given the format of the LKA, some common testing accommodations may non be bachelor.
Physicians requesting special testing accommodations nether the ADA should submit a completed request by the deadline. All required documentation to be approved for the assessment must be received by deadline in social club for staff to review and set the appropriate accommodations.
All physicians should review the Disability Accommodations Request policy in its entirety to ensure that they sympathize their rights and obligations when requesting a testing accommodation.
Acquire more about ABIM'due south evaluation of accommodations requests.
What is the deadline for LKA accommodation requests?
To request a testing accommodation for the LKA, the asking forms and supporting documentation must exist submitted to accommodations@abim.org in writing one month prior to the enrollment borderline for the upcoming quarter.
| Quarter | LKA Enrollment Borderline | Accommodations Request Borderline |
|---|---|---|
| ane | 3/31/22 | 2/28/22 |
| 2 | 6/30/22 | five/31/22 |
How can I request an accommodation?
Physicians requesting special testing accommodations under the ADA should indicate as such through the exam application and submit a complete request past the published deadline. All required documentation to be approved for the assessment must be received by the enrollment deadline in order for staff to review and set the appropriate accommodations.
Note: Adaptation requests will only be considered with advisable documentation. Later the deadline, requests with insufficient information, or that are incomplete for any reason, will non exist processed and the physician may begin the LKA under normal conditions or withdraw their request.
What types of accommodations are existence offered?
Please note, due to its format, certain accommodations may not be available for the LKA. ABIM will ensure that physicians with a disability have access to auxiliary aids and services in accordance with Title Three, but devices and services of a personal nature must be provided by the physician. For case, the availability of a computer with broadband access is necessary for the LKA, simply these would be considered personal devices or services that the physician is responsible for arranging.
If approved for additional testing fourth dimension, the fourth dimension volition exist added to the standard four minutes that physicians have to reply each question also equally the xxx-minute time banking concern physicians may access each twelvemonth, if more time is needed on a particular question.
Do I need to request accommodations if I was previously approved for the traditional, 10-twelvemonth MOC exam?
Accommodations previously approved past ABIM may not automatically apply to the LKA due to the format. Upon enrollment in the LKA, ABIM'due south accommodations squad will review the blessing history and provide a new conclusion for this assessment merely.
Am I able to get-go the assessment over if I utilise for accommodations after completing a quarter of questions?
If you are approved for accommodations after completing questions prior to your request, yous may not brainstorm the assessment from the start. The adaptation approval covers all remaining unanswered questions during your complete five-twelvemonth cycle.
Is my accessibility software uniform with the assessment?
The LKA is designed to piece of work with most text-to-speech and screen magnification programs. You may besides adjust the font size with your keyboard:
| Operating Organization | Zoom In | Zoom Out |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Ctrl+ | Ctl- |
| MAC | Control+ | Command- |
For boosted data, please contact accommodations@abim.org and our accommodations squad volition provide any assistance.
Technical
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What kind of device tin I employ?
While you tin admission the LKA on your internet-continued smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer, the all-time experience at launch will exist on a laptop or desktop calculator. Some testers reported occasional bug with the mobile experience that are actively beingness addressed.
Also, some questions may contain multimedia that are better experienced on a device with a larger screen. If a question will incorporate multimedia, you'll see an warning prompt before opening it that will advise y'all to use a laptop or desktop estimator.
Physician beta testers shared...
"The platform is really great…physicians should be advised to do the questions like a real exam – on a computer, with time blocked off, electronic mail and other distractions close off. It'southward not something to multitask."
"I recommend getting a feel for it on a computer earlier using a mobile device. One time I understood the flow of answering questions and what is on the dashboard, information technology was much easier to apply my telephone."
What software do I need to accept the LKA?
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Windows: Y'all need Windows 8 and Edge, Chrome, or Firefox. Internet Explorer is not supported.
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Mac: You lot need Mac Os X x.xi or higher with Safari 10.1 or higher, Chrome, or Firefox. The latest version of Safari for Mac OS X tin exist downloaded from Apple tree Downloads.
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Android: You need Android version nine.0 or college.
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iOS: Y'all need iOS version 10.11 or college.
What type of Cyberspace connectedness should I have?
The LKA requires a broadband connection. Both wired and wireless (802.11g and 802.11n) networks are supported.
Source: https://www.abim.org/maintenance-of-certification/assessment-information/assessment-options/longitudinal-knowledge-assessment/
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