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 2013 Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity Go to Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity 1999 The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project Go to The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 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?
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 2013 Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity Go to Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity 1999 The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project Go to The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 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?
2013 Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity Go to Dimensionality of the Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians Examination: Evidence of Construct Validity
1999 The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project Go to The item generation methodology of an empiric simulation project
2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
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?
