Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module

PURPOSE Practice performance assessment is the fourth requirement of Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP). American Board of Family […]

Do Professional Development Programs for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Affect Quality of Patient Care?

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between physicians’ completion of American Board of Family Medicine […]

Rural Primary Care Physician Workforce Expansion: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Legislation.

The primary care physician workforce crisis has eluded solution for many years. Concerns raised 5 years ago about nadir of […]

Do residents who train in safety net settings return for practice?

PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between training during residency in a federally qualified health center (FQHC), rural health clinic (RHC), […]

Family physician participation in quality improvement

More than one-third of family physicians reported participating in a quality improvement (QI) activity in the past year. Continuous QI […]

Family physicians in the maternity care workforce: factors influencing declining trends

Family physicians provide access to maternity care for a disproportionate share of rural and urban underserved communities. This paper aims […]

Advancing Quality Health Care through Continuing American Board of Medical Specialties Board Certification

Quality is a core value of the medical profession. Board certification, morbidity and mortality conferences, and participation in hospital quality […]

The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) believes that it is important to have evidence to show that the pass-fail […]

Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence

BACKGROUND: The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) certification and maintenance of certification (MOC) programs strive to provide the public […]

Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care

Physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) are often proposed as solutions to the looming shortage of primary care physicians. […]