Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes

Despite efforts to better coordinate health care and improve population health, primary care practices may face difficulty dedicating an individual […]

How Other Countries Use Deprivation Indices-And Why The United States Desperately Needs One

Integrating public health and medicine to address social determinants of health is essential to achieving the Triple Aim of lower […]

The Evolution of Physician Certification and the Canary in the Coal Mine

In an address before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1908, Derrick T. Vail introduced the concept of […]

Transforming physician certification to support physician self-motivation and capacity to improve quality and safety

Physician certification boards are an intrinsic part of medical professionalism, and the public is their key stakeholder. A decade ago, […]

Accelerating Momentum Toward Improved Health for Patients and Populations: Family Medicine as a Disruptive Innovation-A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference

This paper was prepared in follow up to the G. Gayle Stephens Keystone IV Conference by authors who attended the […]

Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All?

For many physicians, maintaining certification is but one of a number of non-clinical activities that require additional time and energy. […]

The Generation in Between: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference

Keystone IV affirmed the value of relationships in family medicine, but each generation of family physicians took away different impressions […]

Physician Satisfaction With and Practice Changes Resulting From American Board of Family Medicine Maintenance of Certification Performance in Practice Modules

INTRODUCTION: Physician payment in the United States will be increasingly tied to quality measurement and performance. Whether participation in quality […]

Reimagining Our Relationships with Patients: A Perspective from the Keystone IV Conference

Substantial efforts to redesign health care delivery are underway in the United States, including primary care, without attention to what […]

Maintenance of Certification, Medicare Quality Reporting, and Quality of Diabetes Care

Aligning maintenance of certification with quality reporting may ease reporting burden, but the impact on quality is uncertain. This study […]