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 2010 ABFM announces further enhancements to MC-FP Go to ABFM announces further enhancements to MC-FP 2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment 2011 Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters Go to Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters 2019 The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty Go to The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty
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 2010 ABFM announces further enhancements to MC-FP Go to ABFM announces further enhancements to MC-FP 2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment 2011 Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters Go to Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters 2019 The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty Go to The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty
2025 Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment Go to Examining the Construct Stability of the Family Medicine Certification Scale Between One-Day Exam and Longitudinal Assessment
2011 Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters Go to Family physicians’ completion of scoring criteria in Virtual Patient encounters
2019 The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty Go to The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Method for Tracking Their Specialty
