What Family Physicians Really Think of Maintenance of Certification Part II Activities

INTRODUCTION: This study examines how improving curricular content and technical interface issues could make maintenance of certification activities more meaningful […]

Impact of One Versus Two Content-Specific Modules on American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Scores

BACKGROUND: We consider the question of whether requiring diplomates to select only 1 content-specific module, rather than 2, would increase, […]

Intention Versus Reality: Family Medicine Residency Graduates’ Intention to Practice Obstetrics

Although 21% of new family medicine graduates in 2016 reported an intention to include obstetric delivery in their scope of […]

Increased Public Accountability for Hospital Nonprofit Status: Potential Impacts on Residency Positions

BACKGROUND: The Institute of Medicine recently called for greater graduate medical education (GME) accountability for meeting the workforce needs of […]

Who Will Deliver the Babies? Identifying and Addressing Barriers

The policy brief in this JABFM issue reinforces the low percentage of new family medicine graduates who intend to perform […]

Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians

Burnout is on the rise, with over half of US physicians reporting at least 1 symptom in 2014.1 Physician burnout […]

The PRIME Registry Helps Thousands of Primary Care Clinicians Liberate EHR Data and Prepare for MIPS

The PRIME Registry is a population health and performance improvement tool for clinicians and practices. It extracts patient data from […]

Are Milestones Really Measuring Development?

The primary outcome of graduate medical education is to produce a physician with the requisite knowledge, skills, and professional behaviors […]

Family Physicians Practicing High-Volume Obstetric Care Have Recently Dropped by One-Half

Previous research has shown a decline in the percentage of family physicians practicing low- or medium-volume obstetrics. Using 13 years […]

Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The optimal length of residency training in family medicine, as with emergency medicine, is an ongoing debate […]