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Home Research Research Library Family Physicians with a Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ): Well Prepared to Meet a Significant Patient Care Need Family Physicians with a Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ): Well Prepared to Meet a Significant Patient Care Need 2015 Author(s) DiFiori, J P, and Kinderknecht, J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Certificates Of Added Qualifications, and Policy Brief Commentaries Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine In this issue, Rankin, Cochrane, and Puffer report on the practice patterns of family physicians with Certificates of Added Qualifications (CAQs) in Sports Medicine.1 Of the 87,610 board-certified family physicians in the United States, 2.4% (n = 2061) currently hold a sports medicine CAQ (James Puffer, MD, Executive Director, ABFM, personal communication). As mentioned in their article, despite the 23 years that the CAQ has been offered, there is little information on the relative amount of time that the family physicians who are certified in sports medicine spend in the practice of family medicine. ABFM Research Read all 2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification 2005 From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination Go to From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model 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
Author(s) DiFiori, J P, and Kinderknecht, J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Certificates Of Added Qualifications, 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 2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification 2005 From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination Go to From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination 2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model 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
2014 Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification Go to Certification Status of Family Physicians in the Initial Cohort Entering Maintenance of Certification
2005 From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination Go to From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination
2014 Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model Go to Improving quality of care for diabetes through a maintenance of certification activity: family physicians’ use of the chronic care model
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
