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Home Research Research Library Classifying the content of board certification examinations Classifying the content of board certification examinations 1989 Author(s) Pisacano, N J, Veloski, J J, Brucker, P C, and Gonnella, J S Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Psychometrics, and Cognitive Expertise Volume 64(3):149-154 Source Academic Medicine A system of medical classification based on the fundamental dimensions of body system, etiology, and stage of disease was evaluated by classifying the content of one specialty board’s examinations. Ten physicians encoded 2,310 test items that constituted three previously administered certification-recertification examinations of the American Board of Family Practice. Analysis of the data for the major content of one of these certification examinations suggests that a profile based on this classification system might provide a specialty board, the residency programs, and candidates for certification with important information not produced by discipline labels or disease names. This classification system may allow a board to define more effectively the content of its examinations, monitor other requirements for certification, and communicate its standards to the medical profession and society. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2020 Continuing Board Certification: Seeing Our Way Forward Go to Continuing Board Certification: Seeing Our Way Forward 2014 Family medicine residency program directors’ plans to incorporate maintenance of certification into residency training: a CERA survey Go to Family medicine residency program directors’ plans to incorporate maintenance of certification into residency training: a CERA survey 2007 Modeling relief Go to Modeling relief 2021 Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment Becomes Permanent Go to Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment Becomes Permanent
Author(s) Pisacano, N J, Veloski, J J, Brucker, P C, and Gonnella, J S Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Psychometrics, and Cognitive Expertise Volume 64(3):149-154 Source Academic Medicine
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2020 Continuing Board Certification: Seeing Our Way Forward Go to Continuing Board Certification: Seeing Our Way Forward
2014 Family medicine residency program directors’ plans to incorporate maintenance of certification into residency training: a CERA survey Go to Family medicine residency program directors’ plans to incorporate maintenance of certification into residency training: a CERA survey
2021 Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment Becomes Permanent Go to Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment Becomes Permanent