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 2017 Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians Go to Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians 2022 Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection Go to Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection 2017 Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training Go to Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training 2025 Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care Go to Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care
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 2017 Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians Go to Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians 2022 Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection Go to Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection 2017 Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training Go to Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training 2025 Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care Go to Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care
2017 Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians Go to Workplace Factors Associated With Burnout of Family Physicians
2022 Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection Go to Family Physician Racial Identity: An Analysis of “Other” Race Selection and Implications for Future Data Collection
2017 Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training Go to Factors Associated With Interest in Pursuing a Fourth Year of Family Medicine Residency Training
2025 Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care Go to Data Transformation to Advance AI/ML Research and Implementation in Primary Care
