relevance, reduce burden, and support clinical mastery across Diplomates' careers. The
strategy is:• Grounded in theory and evidence about adult learning, including longitudinal …

Participation in continuous certification involves ongoing, periodic engagement with a series
of activities intended to help family physicians regularly assess their own knowledge …

A positive, genuine, and effective relationship between the American Board of Family
Medicine (ABFM) and the physicians participating in continuous certification over the course …

On January 4, 2019, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launched the Family
Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment1 (FMCLA) pilot. Our hope is that FMCLA will …

Training future leaders is key to family medicine's growth. STFM launched the first Leading
Change Task Force in 2013 to create online learning modules to develop leaders in all …

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is exploring the development of an ABFM
Journal Club as a part of its continuing certification portfolio. To benchmark this effort, we …

A s we embark on the next iteration of our Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME) specialty requirements, striking a balance between standardization and …

STFM has the privilege of leading the advocacy effort for the 4 academic family medicine
organizations that make up the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM). We lead and …

Sweeping effects of changes in our health care system on medical education are
documented comprehensively in Ludmerer's new book Time to Heal (1) and succinctly in …

N early a decade ago, I had the privilege of working with and in support of a Council of
Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) task force that was charged to create “a framework with …