Envisioning a New Health Care System for America
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Between August 2013 and April 2014, eight family medicine organizations convened to develop a strategic plan and […]
A Family Medicine Health Technology Strategy for Achieving the Triple Aim for US Health Care
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Health information technology (health IT) and health technology, more broadly, offer tremendous promise for connecting, synthesizing, and […]
Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Affordable Care Act has spurred significant change in the US health care system, including expansion of […]
A Significant Number of Charter Diplomates Participate in American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Maintenance of Certification
Considerable controversy about the value of participating in Maintenance of Certification has recently arisen within the medical community. Despite this […]
Response: Re: Performance on the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) Examination: Comparison of Initial Certifiers with Experienced Physicians
We appreciate Dr. Volpintesta’s commentary and suggestions. We suspected that the differences between pass rates and mean scores were not […]
The Impact of Repeated Exposure to Items
THEORY: When test developers have a limited number of test questions available or when the equating design requires some item […]
Assessing the viability of External Searchable Resources on the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination
(Purpose) The purpose of our study was to assess the need for an external searchable resource to be used in […]
Making Personalized Health Care Even More Personalized: Insights From Activities of the IOM Genomics Roundtable
Genomic research has generated much new knowledge into mechanisms of human disease, with the potential to catalyze novel drug discovery […]
A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launches the start of a Family Medicine Registry with a study called the […]
Reported practice patterns among family physicians with a geriatrics certificate of added qualifications
Practice patterns of family physicians with additional certification are unknown but are important to workforce planners and policymakers, who may […]
