Home Research Research Library Family practice Family practice 1979 Author(s) Pisacano, N J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Board News Volume JAMA It is especially appropriate this year to update and review major events in the specialty of family practice, for it was almost ten years ago to the day (February 1969) that family practice, albeit only after a long and operose struggle, officially became the 20th medical specialty. Like the phoenix, which is represented on the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP) seal, the specialty rose from the ashes of what was called general practice—the residue of physicians who remained after all the others had entered a more circumscribed field of medicine. Family practice was born out of social need to fill the void created by this specialization in other more specific areas of medicine. The call was for a “broader” specialty, one that would train the “new physician” in the “old-fashioned” relationships, a physician who would not only appreciate the patient. ABFM Research Read all 2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification 2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning 2021 Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions Go to Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions 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?
ABFM Research Read all 2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification 2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning 2021 Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions Go to Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions 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?
2016 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement for Hypertension through Maintenance of Certification
2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning
2021 Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions Go to Promoting Active Learning in Residency Didactic Sessions
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?
