A Message from the President

JC Puffer - 2018 - Am Board Family Med
It is hard to believe that I have completed my 16th year at the American Board of Family
Medicine (ABFM). Time has passed quickly as I and our incredible staff became immersed in …

Rewarding family medicine while penalizing comprehensiveness? Primary care payment incentives and health reform: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act …

S Petterson, AW Bazemore, RL Phillips… - The Journal of the …, 2011 - Am Board Family Med
Family physicians' scope of work is exceptionally broad, particularly with increasing rurality.
Provisions for Medicare bonus payment specified in the health care reform bill (the Patient …

The Affordable Care Act: unprecedented opportunities for family physicians and public health

DJ Derksen - The Annals of Family Medicine, 2013 - Annals Family Med
Covering the uninsured improves health outcomes and narrows health disparities. 4, 5 Yet
disturbing racial and ethnic differences in coverage and outcomes persist. Uninsured rates …

[HTML][HTML] From the Association of Departments of Family Medicine: Embracing Our New Realities

JR Vera - Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
how the perspective of being a patient can better prepare you to provide the care we would
want for ourselves. It was an impactful and successful conference after the delay to gather …

[PDF][PDF] The American Board of Family Medicine: what's next?

W Newton - 2019 - Am Board Family Med
In March 2004, the Future of Family Medicine issued a famous prophecy:“Unless there are
changes in the broader health care system and within the specialty, the position of family …

A message from the president of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

JC Puffer - 2016 - Am Board Family Med
Feedback is critically important in helping the American Board of Family Medicine
continuously improve the assessment tools that we use in our certification process. We used …

Increases in primary care physician income due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010-continued tweaking of physician payment.

AC MacKinney - Rural Policy Brief, 2010 - europepmc.org
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes several changes to the
Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system that are designed to increase …

[HTML][HTML] Inspired by our collective mission

LC Loh - Canadian Family Physician, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lawrence C. Loh MD MPH CCFP FCFP FRCPC FACPM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Many things have become apparent amid my first weeks here …

[PDF][PDF] Ready (or Not)—Here They Come

KDC Hanrahan - The Journal of the American Board of …, 2022 - Am Board Family Med
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted all aspects of our lives worldwide, including our medical
education system. The impact this disruption had on graduate medical education and …

Guest family physician commentaries

JF Calvert - The Journal of the American Board of Family …, 2009 - Am Board Family Med
Like many family physicians, over the past 10 years I have become increasingly dependent
on my PDA for organizing my life and storing all sorts of information. Data on my PDA …