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Certification Activities

To maintain your certification, you are required to earn certification points by completing Self-Assessment and Performance Improvement activities.

Self-Assessment

Designed to help family physicians identify gaps in knowledge through regular participation in Self-Assessment activities. ABFM offers three activities to satisfy your Self-Assessment requirement.

  • Knowledge Self-Assessment activity
  • Continuous Knowledge Self-Assessment activities
  • National Journal Club article assessments

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Performance Improvement

Designed to support high-quality patient care, this component will help family physicians identify an improvement opportunity or a performance gap, implement a change in care delivery, and measure the impact of that change to their patients/practice.

Choose from a variety of ABFM-developed activities or design your own project through a self-directed activity.

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To earn the remaining certification points required, you may complete additional Self-Assessment or Performance Improvement activities, or choose from a variety of alternative activities. Please visit your MyABFM Portfolio to view all available activities.