[HTML][HTML] From the American Board of Family Medicine: THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT: ABFM'S STRATEGY GOING FORWARD

WP Newton, TR O'Neill, DW Price - Annals of Family Medicine, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Concerns about bias in standardized testing for undergraduate admissions have led some
to question all multiple-choice testing. ABFM, however, believes that assessment of clinical …

[HTML][HTML] From the American Board of Family Medicine: BUILDING PRIORITIES IN HEALTH & HEALTH CARE INTO ABFM'S KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENTS

WP Newton, L Handler, M Magill - Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In January 2021, the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
decided that emerging priorities in health and health care should become an explicit …

[PDF][PDF] HIGH-STAKES KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT AT ABFM: WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND HOW IT IS USEFUL.

WP Newton, TR O'Neill, T Wang - Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 - Annals Family Med
Clinical knowledge is fundamental to the social contract between medicine and society. As 1
of the 6 core competencies, appropriate clinical knowledge is effortfully acquired, constantly …

Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass?

TR O'Neill, KD Royal, JC Puffer - The Journal of the American …, 2011 - Am Board Family Med
Introduction: Certification examinations used by American specialty boards have been the
sine qua non for demonstrating the knowledge sufficient for attainment of board certification …

[PDF][PDF] EMPOWERING FAMILY PHYSICIANS TO DRIVE CHANGE IN PRACTICE: PLANS FOR THE ABFM NATIONAL JOURNAL CLUB.

MA Quan, WP Newton, L Handler… - Annals of Family …, 2021 - Annals Family Med
Often lost in an age of health system consolidation, population health, and big data, is the
importance of single clinical decisions, made one patient at a time by family physicians …

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

MD Hagen, MA Quan, R Fain, W DeBord - 2015 - Annals Family Med
In 2004, the first self-assessment modules (SAMs) went online as a resource for fulfilling the
part II requirement of Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP). As time …

Helping family physicians keep up to date: a next step in the pursuit of mastery

MA Quan, WP Newton - The Journal of the American Board of …, 2020 - Am Board Family Med
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 …

[PDF][PDF] The decline in family medicine in-training examination scores: what we know and why it matters

WP Newton, T Wang, TR O'Neill - 2023 - Am Board Family Med
Since the first Board examination in Ophthalmology in 1916, assessment of cognitive
expertise has been foundational to Board Certification. Since then, there have been …

How the ABFM will address health equity

WP Newton, E Baxley, L Peterson, J Brady, R Phillips… - 2020 - Annals Family Med
469 examination questions. Formally termed Differential Item Functioning (DIF), 7-9 this
process compares, on an item-by-item basis, whether examination questions perform …

The future of family medicine version 2.0: reflections from Pisacano scholars

NC Doohan, M Duane, B Harrison… - The Journal of the …, 2014 - Am Board Family Med
The Future of Family Medicine (FFM) project has helped shape and direct the evolution of
primary care medicine over the past decade. Pisacano Scholars, a group of leaders in family …