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We promise that the credential you earn is a meaningful measure of your
professionalism, cognitive expertise, and commitment to improvement.
VALUE OF CERTIFICATION
Participating in Family Medicine Certification assures patients that you are up to date, work regularly to improve your care and are worthy of their confidence.
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BECOME CERTIFIED
Family Medicine Certification (FMC) serves to assure your patients and the public that you are highly skilled and effective at improving their health by having met the specific residency training standards and continuing to maintain high professional standards.
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CONTINUE CERTIFICATION
Patients place faith in board certification and expect that it reflects ongoing education and practice improvement.
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ADDED QUALIFICATIONS
In conjunction with other ABMS member boards, ABFM offers a number of Added Qualifications.
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Board Member Spotlight
Dr. Tiffani Maycock, sees a different panel of patients in her Selma, Alabama Family Medicine practice, "Where I am, in the black belt of America, is a very unique rural setting. Our patients have slightly different health issues to address, and it's harder to find faculty to come here and train the residents in my program. Not everyone wants to start a career in the rural south."
Positive Outcomes When Treating Hypertension
Dr. Gary LeRoy, ABFM's newly appointed Senior Vice President of Diplomate Experience, recently addressed the challenges he sees when treating hypertension in Black patients in his Dayton, Ohio practice and the effects of lifestyle modifications on blood pressure control.
"BORN TO HELP PEOPLE LIKE ME"
Dr. Kalaki Clarke promotes hope, healing, and health equity in The Skid Row District of Downtown Los Angeles—a community where more than 66,000 individuals are experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. Dr. Clarke explains that health outcomes and housing security are closely connected. She hopes that increasing that awareness will help the community to thrive.
A Leadership Challenge: Providing Hope for Our Patients, Practices and Communities
We live in dispiriting times, from the long-lasting wounds of COVID on our practices, communities and personal lives, to persistent health disparities, high inflation, and the renewed threat of nuclear war. To move forward and rebuild, the people we serve – our patients, practices, and communities – must have hope.
Warren Newton, MD, MPH
Read the latest JABFM article to discover the hope found within the transformational leaders of family medicine. Learn how this community is united in the need for change.
Quality Health Care, Public Trust...
Setting the Standards in Family Medicine.
About the ABFM
The American Board of Family Medicine is one of 24 medical specialty boards that make up the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Through ABMS, the boards work together to establish common standards for physicians to achieve and maintain board certification. The American Board of Family Medicine is an independent, non-profit organization. Read more
