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New ABFM Research Page Goes Live!

January 19, 2022

Providing you with easy access to published research that is focused on creating, evaluating, and maintaining cutting-edge certification methods, and to advance the scientific basis for family medicine.

PRIME Registry Illuminates the Role of Primary Care

January 19, 2022

Providing Vital Help to CDC Understanding of COVID-19

Equity and Diversity in Family Medicine Workforce Policy Brief Series

January 19, 2022

JABFM publishes special themed series focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

National Journal Club to Build on Pilot Success in 2022!

January 19, 2022

ABFM National Journal Club Pilot in August 2021

ABFM’s Approach to Health Equity and DEI in the Curation of Knowledge Assessment Questions

January 19, 2022

ABFM acknowledges our responsibility to ensure that the questions we use in all self-assessment activities and examinations are free from bias.

ABFM and Stanford Support CDC to Monitor COVID-19 Incidence, Prevalence, and Long-Term Symptoms

December 16, 2021

ABFM and the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences have entered into a contract with the CDC to apply a new initiative to monitor social inequalities in COVID-19 and assess the prevalence...

RWJF Awards Grant to ABFM Foundation for Collaboration with Stanford and US Census Bureau to Support Research on Using Social Determinants of Health Indices to Adjust Payments to Physicians

December 14, 2021

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a new two-year grant to support “Testing the predicting power of social determinants of health indices on outcomes to improve Medicare payment,” a research collaboration between...

New JAMA Article Navigates Changes to US News’ Medical School Rankings

November 19, 2021

Authors Robert Phillips, MD, Andrew Bazemore, MD, and Jack Westfall, MD, provide valuable insight into US News' medical school ranking process.

Big Win for Primary Care Physicians!

November 8, 2021

New Primary Care Focused Performance Measure Accepted by CMS

ABFM Now Recognizes Blue Cross Blue Shield Patients Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Certification for Meeting Performance Improvement Requirement

November 1, 2021

Family physicians participating in the BCBS PCMH certification program can submit this for PI credit as part of their continuous certification stage requirements.