Home Research Research Library Family practice Family practice 1979 Author(s) Pisacano, N J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Board News Volume 241(13):1362-1363 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 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? 2025 Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine Go to Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine 2022 Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study Go to Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study
Author(s) Pisacano, N J Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Board News Volume 241(13):1362-1363
ABFM Research Read all 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? 2025 Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine Go to Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine 2022 Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study Go to Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study
2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence
2014 Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know? Go to Do family physicians choose self-assessment activities based on what they know or don’t know?
2025 Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine Go to Impact of Training Length on Scope of Practice Among Residency Graduates: A Report From the Length of Training Pilot Study in Family Medicine
2022 Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study Go to Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study
