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Home Research Research Library Advancing Quality Health Care through Continuing American Board of Medical Specialties Board Certification Advancing Quality Health Care through Continuing American Board of Medical Specialties Board Certification 2013 Author(s) Nora, L M Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Performance Improvement, and Policy Brief Commentaries Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Quality is a core value of the medical profession. Board certification, morbidity and mortality conferences, and participation in hospital quality committees are just a few of the many ways in which the medical profession has evidenced its commitment to quality throughout the decades. Despite this fundamental commitment to quality, the health professions and health care industry have been slower to embrace quality science and continuous quality improvement (QI) practices than were manufacturing and engineering. Resistance to implementing formalized QI systems often was justified by financial concerns and the belief that health care is fundamentally different from those sectors that more readily embraced QI principles. ABFM Research Read all 1995 Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice Go to Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice 2013 Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results Go to Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results 2003 Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification Go to Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification 2012 Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees Go to Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees
Author(s) Nora, L M Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Performance Improvement, and Policy Brief Commentaries Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 1995 Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice Go to Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice 2013 Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results Go to Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results 2003 Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification Go to Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification 2012 Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees Go to Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees
1995 Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice Go to Educational resource sharing and collaborative training in family practice and internal medicine. A statement from the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Family Practice
2013 Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results Go to Criterion-referenced examinations: implications for the reporting and interpretation of examination results
2003 Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification Go to Computer-based testing in family practice certification and recertification
2012 Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees Go to Cheating: its implications for ABFM examinees
