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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. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2018 Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians Go to Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians 2014 Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships Go to Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2021 Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring Go to Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring
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 2018 Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians Go to Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians 2014 Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships Go to Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships 2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians 2021 Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring Go to Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring
2018 Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians Go to Buprenorphrine Provision by Early Career Family Physicians
2014 Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships Go to Structure and Characteristics of Family Medicine Maternity Care Fellowships
2018 Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians Go to Rural Family Physicians Have a Broader Scope of Practice Than Urban Family Physicians
2021 Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring Go to Primary Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Essential, and Inspiring
