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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 2005 Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules Go to Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules 2015 A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry Go to A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry 2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? 2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy
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 2005 Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules Go to Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules 2015 A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry Go to A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry 2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? 2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy
2005 Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules Go to Listening to the diplomates: physicians’ feedback on Self-Assessment Modules
2015 A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry Go to A to simplify moc for family physicians and make it more meaningful: a family medicine registry
2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know?
2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy
