Home Research Research Library A new focus on research A new focus on research 2008 Author(s) Rinaldo, Jason C Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Performance Improvement, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume 6(2):183-184 Source Annals of Family Medicine Self-assessment is an ongoing and increasingly extensive process. As a matter of basic ethics and good conscience, the ABFM cannot require diplomates to scrutinize their knowledge and practices if we are not equally willing to engage in a perpetual and data driven self-evaluation. As such, a vector of the ABFM’s research direction will be self-reflective. We will evaluate the effects of changes instituted since ABFM began the Maintenance of Certification processes in 2004 and the validity of our assessment processes. There are many questions that we have addressed already, but there are far more that have yet to be addressed. For example, we have been gathering data from participants in the Maintenance of Certification program regarding their impressions of the MC-FP process. Feedback has been markedly positive. After completing a single Self-Assessment Module (SAM), one-half of all respondents indicated that they will change their practice as a result of their participation. More than 90% of these physicians listed 1 or more specific behaviors that they intend to alter based on material presented in the SAM process. Although this data appears positive, we do not assume that the data are either static or definitive. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success Go to Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success 2016 Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? Go to Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? 2012 Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high Go to Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high 2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams)
Author(s) Rinaldo, Jason C Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Performance Improvement, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume 6(2):183-184 Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2014 Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success Go to Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success 2016 Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? Go to Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? 2012 Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high Go to Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high 2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams)
2014 Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success Go to Community size and organization of practice predict family physician recertification success
2016 Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? Go to Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All?
2012 Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high Go to Engagement of family physicians in maintenance of certification remains high
2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams)
