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Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification

Purpose Family medicine residency programs can be cited for low pass or take rates on the American Board of Family […]

How Should Board Certification Evolve?

Family Medicine was a child of the 1960s. Triggered by compelling social need for care outside of large hospitals, Family […]

Helping Family Physicians Keep Up to Date: A Next Step in the Pursuit of Mastery

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is exploring the development of an ABFM Journal Club as a part of […]

The Role of Gender in the Experience and Impact of Recertification Exam Preparation: A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians

Background: Little is known about how physicians experience preparing for board recertification examinations. As women make up a growing proportion […]

General Practitioners in US Medical Practice Compared With Family Physicians

PURPOSE General practitioners (GPs) are part of the US physician workforce, but little is known about who they are, what […]

Advancing bibliometric assessment of research productivity: an analysis of US Departments of Family Medicine

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTIONMeasurement of family medicine research productivity has lacked the replicable methodology needed to document progress. AIMIn this study, we […]

The Evolving Family Medicine Team

A decade of practice transformation, consolidation, and payment experimentation have highlighted the need for team-based primary care, but little is […]

Trends in the Gender Ratio of Authorship at the Robert Graham Center

Gender disparities in medical publication have been demonstrated in several specialties. This descriptive bibliometric analysis aims to determine the gender […]

Characteristics of Family Medicine Residency Graduates, 1994-2017: An Update

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to characterize graduates of family medicine (FM) residencies from 1994 to 2017 and […]

Using Machine Learning to Predict Primary Care and Advance Workforce Research

PURPOSE To develop and test a machine-learning–based model to predict primary care and other specialties using Medicare claims data. METHODS […]