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Residency Learning Networks: Why and How.

Residency learning networks are becoming increasingly important in family medicine education. These networks range from focused conferences to collaborative practice […]

Family Medicine Residencies: How Rural Training Exposure in GME Is Associated With Subsequent Rural Practice

Background: Rural US populations face a chronic shortage of physicians and an increasing gap in life expectancy compared to urban […]

How the Gender Wage Gap for Primary Care Physicians Differs by Compensation Approach : A Microsimulation Study

BACKGROUND: The physician gender wage gap may be due, in part, to productivity-based compensation models that undervalue female practice patterns. […]

Advances in the Cognitive Science and Their Implications for ABFM Knowledge Assessment

Since the founding of American Board of Family Practice (ABFP) in 1969, there have been major advances in the cognitive […]

The Promise of Aire

Four-year residency programs have much to teach us, and the ACGME Committee drafting new requirements for Family Medicine residencies decided […]

Family Physician Income Disparities by Race and Gender

A race and gender salary gap has been well-documented throughout the U.S. economy, but little described in primary care. Using […]

Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US

In the US federal government, no single agency oversees primary care, collects consistent data about its clinicians and performance, or […]

The Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Family Physician Workforce in Non-Metropolitan and Metropolitan Counties

Overview of Key Findings ▪ The family physician workforce is becoming more racially diverse; however, non-metropolitan family physicians are not. […]

Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Among Older Mexican-Origin Populations in the U.S

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study is to examine diabetes screening and monitoring among Latino individuals as compared with non-Latino […]

Building Priorities in Health & Health Care into ABFM’s Knowledge Assessments

In January 2021, the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) decided that emerging priorities in […]