Read the Latest ABFM Research

Check out ABFM’s latest research below and in our research library, or follow us on LinkedIn where we regularly highlight research relevant to family medicine. ABFM conducts research devoted to creating, evaluating, and maintaining cutting edge certification methods and advancing the scientific basis of family medicine.

The ABFM studies listed below offer important findings that can inform policy and practice for the betterment of family medicine, including the importance of primary care access, how organizational partnerships can improve community-level health outcomes, and understanding what drives family physicians’ scope of practice.

Achieving Health System Goals

Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model 

Impact of Community Health Center Losses on County-Level Mortality: A Natural Experiment in the United States, 2011-2019 

Education and Training

The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine 

Family Medicine Certification

Changes in Family Medicine Certification Examination Performance in Longitudinal Assessment

Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment

Role of Primary Care

Rural Family Physicians Are More Likely to Collaborate with Multisector Community Organizations 

Heterogeneity of Diagnosis and Documentation of Post-COVID Conditions in Primary Care: A Machine Learning Analysis 

What Family Physicians Do

Family Medicine Residents Intentions to Provide Gender Affirming Care 

Regional Variation in Scope of Practice by Family Physicians 

Diabetes Monitoring in Foreign-born and US-born Latino Adults in US Community Health Centers