Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance

PURPOSE: Previous research indicated that rural family physicians were more likely to pass the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) […]

Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use?

BACKGROUND: Spurred by government incentives, the use of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States has increased; however, whether […]

Family medicine graduate proximity to their site of training: policy options for improving the distribution of primary care access

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The US Graduate Medical Education (GME) system is failing to produce primary care physicians in sufficient quantity […]

Fewer family physicians are in solo practices

Over the past 20 years there has been a statistically significant trend toward fewer family physicians identifying as being in […]

Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care

Peterson et al1 raise important issues about the decline in the proportion of solo practitioners in primary care and whether […]

ABFM’s self-assessment module (SAM) revision process

In 2004, the first self-assessment modules (SAMs) went online as a resource for fulfilling the part II requirement of Maintenance […]

States Can Transform Their Health Care Workforce

The United States faces the simultaneous challenges of improving health care access and balancing the specialty and geographic distribution of […]

Clinical informatics as an option for American Board of Family Medicine Diplomates

The American Board of Medical Specialties approved in 2011 the offering of a new subcertificate in Clinical Informatics, with the […]

Tectonic shifts are needed in graduate medical education to ensure today’s trainees are prepared to practice as tomorrow’s physicians

Most U.S. institutions that sponsor graduate medical education (GME) programs are struggling to commit to a non-volume-based care business model […]

A Retrospective Analysis of the Relationship between Medical Student Debt and Primary Care Practice in the United States.

PURPOSE We undertook a study to reexamine the relationship between educational debt and primary care practice, accounting for the potentially […]