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Home Research Research Library Certifying Boards Can Provide Knowledge that Shapes Policy Certifying Boards Can Provide Knowledge that Shapes Policy 2024 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Board News, Continuing Certification Questionnaire, Graduate Medical Education, Health Information Technology (HIT), Imprinting Of Training, In-Training Examination, Measurement, National Graduate Survey, National Resident Survey, Practice Demographic Survey, Prime, Professionalism, and Supply / Projections Volume ABMS Insights Source ABMS Insights The 24 Member Boards of the American Board of Medical specialties (ABMS) are uniquely positioned between the interests of the public and the profession, not in the tensions between them, but rather in the shared space of improving care and outcomes. One way that certifying boards can serve both interests is as an honest broker of highly reliable data at a time when the data that policymakers rely upon is crumbling. In the absence of good data, policymakers can make bad decisions that hurt physicians and our patients. The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) has collected data routinely from board certified family physicians (also known as diplomates) for more than 40 years but in the last dozen years, it has done so with the express purpose of understanding the ecology of Family Medicine—how it is changing, the pressures on the workforce, and how it affects our diplomates. In 2018, ABFM created the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care to help change the policies that affect health care professionals and enable them to deliver better care with less burden and less burnout. Good data have been a key lever for this goal. ABFM Research Read all 2022 Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic Go to Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2016 Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes Go to Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes 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) 2015 The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination Go to The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Board News, Continuing Certification Questionnaire, Graduate Medical Education, Health Information Technology (HIT), Imprinting Of Training, In-Training Examination, Measurement, National Graduate Survey, National Resident Survey, Practice Demographic Survey, Prime, Professionalism, and Supply / Projections Volume ABMS Insights Source ABMS Insights
ABFM Research Read all 2022 Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic Go to Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2016 Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes Go to Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes 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) 2015 The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination Go to The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination
2022 Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic Go to Practice Adjustments Made by Family Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2016 Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes Go to Care Coordination and Population Management Services Are More Prevalent in Large Practices and Patient-centered Medical Homes
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)
2015 The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination Go to The Predictive Validity of the ABFM’s In-Training Examination
