Affiliates

The primary purpose of the ABFM Foundation (ABFM-F) is to support ABFM through its education and research efforts that instigate, motivate, and focus on projects that are aligned with the broader mission of ABFM. Recent examples include the residency redesign, the creation of residency learning networks, CBME education and training, efforts to better understand the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, addressing health equity issues, development of the Measures That Matter To Primary Care initiative, family medicine leadership opportunities, the expansion of the research capacity of the profession, and operating the PRIME Registry. As of July 1, 2018, the ABFM Foundation houses the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care.

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Health care in the United States is going through stormy changes that threaten health professionals’ wellbeing and the public’s trust. The ways in which health care professionals are currently measured and valued often work against the behaviors and relationships that patients want and expect from their physicians.  To study relationships between professionalism and value, promote their alignment, recommend ways to reduce burden, and better support outcome and quality improvement, the ABFM Foundation created the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care (CPV). Located in Washington, D.C., Robert Phillips, MD, MSPH serves as the founding Executive Director of the Center which engages the broader healthcare community, policy-makers, payers, and patients to consider the state of professionalism and value, and determines how to best measure, align, and improve them.

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ABFM established the Pisacano Leadership Foundation in January 1991 as an enduring tribute to the ABFM founder and first Executive Director, Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD.  The goal of the Pisacano Leadership Foundation is to identify and develop future leaders who can make relevant contributions to the specialty of family medicine for generations to come. To accomplish this task, the Foundation developed the Pisacano Scholars Leadership Program. Pisacano scholars receive scholarships, educational opportunities, and leadership training over a 4-year period, before becoming part of an alumni group who form a community of lifelong learners in family medicine leadership. In addition to scholarships, the Scholars participate in symposia and leadership skills development semiannually, along with mentoring relationships with current leaders in the field of Family Medicine.

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Published since 1988, the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM) is the official peer-reviewed journal of ABFM. Believing that the public and scientific communities are best served by open access to information, JABFM makes its articles available free of charge and without registration. JABFM is indexed by Medline, Index Medicus, and other services. JABFM publishes six bimonthly issues per year, comprising original material from authors with new knowledge to contribute to the understanding and advancement of family medicine research and clinical practice. JABFM also serves as an important forum for the specialty of family medicine, and as a source of news from the ABFM.

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ABFM is one of seven sponsoring organizations for the Annals of Family Medicine. Created as a strategic outcome of the Future of Family Medicine project, and in recognition of the increasing need for outlets for impactful research that seeks to identify and address important questions in the provision of patient-centered, prioritized, and high-quality health care, Annals has become the premier scientific journal for family medicine. Welcoming submissions on clinical, biomedical, social and health services topics, Annals publishes original research; methodologic reports; essays from reflective clinicians, patients, families, communities, and policymakers; and selected systematic reviews that build on current knowledge to advance new theory, methods, or research directions.

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