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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 2011 Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass? Go to Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass? 1989 Reconsecratio medici Go to Reconsecratio medici 2019 Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity Go to Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity 2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination
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 2011 Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass? Go to Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass? 1989 Reconsecratio medici Go to Reconsecratio medici 2019 Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity Go to Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity 2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination
2011 Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass? Go to Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination: are superior test-taking skills alone sufficient to pass?
2019 Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity Go to Utilizing PHATE: A Population Health–Mapping Tool to Identify Areas of Food Insecurity
2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination
