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Home All News & Insights Health Equity in Action: ABFM Diplomate Stories Phoenix Newsletter – January 2022 Health Equity in Action: ABFM Diplomate Stories Do you have a health equity related topic that you'd like to share as a potential story idea? January 19, 2022 The following two articles are part of ABFM’s new “Health Equity In Action” series. ABFM will be presenting unique experiences and programs through this series, both within ABFM and those shared by family medicine physicians nationwide. If you have a health equity related topic that you’d like to share as a potential story idea, please send us a message at [email protected]. FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENTS SCREEN FOR FOOD INSECURITY We recently talked with two family medicine residents who completed the Health Disparities/Equity Self-Directed activity to address food insecurity in their community. Read their Health Equity In Action story. ABFM’S DIF PANEL HELPS PREVENT BIAS IN ABFM EXAMINATION SCORING ABFM is committed to ensuring that all examination questions are free from bias. This requires an annual, independent assessment to test for any group score differences that might represent potential item-level bias in the examination. In 2013, ABFM’s Psychometrics Department began conducting a process known as Differential Item Functioning (DIF) to accomplish this review. A diverse group of family physicians and other volunteers from across the country assemble annually to review these items for possible bias, in order to assure fairness in examination scoring. Read the full Health Equity In Action story.
