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The Future of Family Medicine Residency Training

August 3, 2020

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) plans to develop a major revision of the Family Medicine Residency Guidelines for the first time in over 10 years.

Lars Peterson, MD, PhD, Selected as 2019 NAM Puffer/ABFM Fellow

September 9, 2019

Dr. Peterson serves as the Vice President of Research at ABFM in Lexington, KY, and is also an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of...

ABFM’s Family Medicine Certification Longitudial Assessment Pilot to Expand in 2020

July 15, 2019

Eligible Diplomates will be able to sign-up for the pilot beginning December 6, 2019.

ABFM Selects Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, as New Senior Vice President of...

April 18, 2019

Dr. Bazemore’s areas of focus will include leading the next phase of development of the ABFM research enterprise, co-leading ABFM’s Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, and coordinating and developing...

The Larry A. Green Center Wins NQF’s Annual Conference Innovator Abstract Award

April 4, 2019

The Larry A. Green Center developed the measure with the support of the founding sponsor, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Foundation.

Vision for the Future – Commission Final Report

March 1, 2019

This blue-ribbon report has provided recommendations, based on broad input, for the future of Continuing Certification.

ABFM’s Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA) Pilot Approved

November 8, 2018

All family physicians who are in their 10th year of their certification cycle in 2019 and in good standing with continuing certification will be eligible for the pilot.