Racial/Ethnic Group Trajectory Differences in Exam Performance Among US Family Medicine Residents

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Racial/ethnic score disparities on standardized tests are well documented. Such differences on the American Board of Family […]

Primary Care: The Actual Intelligence Required for Artificial Intelligence to Advance Health Care and Improve Health

With conversational agents triaging symptoms, cameras aiding diagnoses, and remote sensors monitoring vital signs, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) […]

It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies…

After two years of re-envisioning family medicine residency education, 1–3 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) released draft […]

Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review

BACKGROUND: Disease prevention is a central aspect of primary care practice and is comprised of primary (eg, vaccinations), secondary (eg, […]

Comprehensiveness-the Need to Resurrect a Sagging Pillar of Primary Care.

There is a critical importance of comprehensive primary care, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argue that […]

Racial/Ethnic Representation Among American Board of Family Medicine Certification Candidates from 1970 to 2020

BACKGROUND: Because improved patient outcomes and experiences have been associated with health care workforce diversity, efforts to create a diverse […]

Family Physicians Increasingly Deliver Care in Diverse Languages

The proportion of family physicians reporting provision of patient care in Spanish changed little between 2013 to 2020 but rose […]

Family Medicine’s Gender Pay Gap

Female physicians earn less than their male counterparts, and many explanatory factors have been offered to account for these differences. […]

Informing Equity & Diversity in Primary Care Policy and Practice: Introducing a New Series of Policy Briefs, Commentaries, and Voices in JABFM

Recent events remind us that deeply embedded inequities in health care access and health outcomes are rooted in historically white, […]

The American Board of Family Medicine’s 8 Years of Experience with Differential Item Functioning

INTRODUCTION: Differential item functioning (DIF) procedures flag examination questions in which examinees from different subpopulations who are of equal ability […]