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Home Research Research Library From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination From specialty-based to practice-based: a new blueprint for the American Board of Family Medicine cognitive examination 2005 Author(s) Norris, T E, Rovinelli, R J, Puffer, James C, Rinaldo, Jason C, and Price, David W Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, Psychometrics, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Source Journal of the American Board of Family Practice The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is committed to offering cognitive examinations that are both pertinent to the specialty of family medicine and psychometrically sound. This article reviews the history of the development of the blueprint of the ABFM certification and recertification cognitive examinations and describes the creation of a new one. The design of the new blueprint represents a significant change. The intention of the new plan is to create a continuously evolving approach that will assure family physicians that the content of their specialty board certification/recertification examination is relevant to their practices and to the discipline. The ABFM anticipates that assessments based on the new blueprint will assist family physicians in attaining and maintaining the knowledge required to practice high quality family medicine by focusing their certification and recertification examinations and, therefore, studies for those examinations on material that is relevant to their practices. ABFM Research Read all 2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout 2018 Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement Go to Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement 2019 Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study Go to Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study 2025 Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis Go to Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis
Author(s) Norris, T E, Rovinelli, R J, Puffer, James C, Rinaldo, Jason C, and Price, David W Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, Achieving Health System Goals, and What Family Physicians Do Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, Psychometrics, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Source Journal of the American Board of Family Practice
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout 2018 Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement Go to Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement 2019 Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study Go to Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study 2025 Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis Go to Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis
2020 Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout Go to Team Configurations, Efficiency, and Family Physician Burnout
2018 Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement Go to Primary Care Practices’ Abilities And Challenges In Using Electronic Health Record Data For Quality Improvement
2019 Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study Go to Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Prediabetes: A Mixed-Methods Primary Care Study
2025 Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis Go to Heterogeneity of diagnosis and documentation of post-COVID conditions in primary care: A machine learning analysis
