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Home Research Research Library Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? Reducing Burden, Assuring Competence, Improving Quality, and Enhancing Professionalism: How Can Abfm Contribute to All? 2016 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Certificates Of Added Qualifications, Cognitive Expertise, Health Information Technology (HIT), Measurement, Performance Improvement, Population Health, Prime, Professionalism, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine For many physicians, maintaining certification is but one of a number of non-clinical activities that require additional time and energy. The ABFM is working to balance the importance of providing a mechanism for family physicians to demonstrate their ongoing competency and improvement with the additional burden and expense the federal efforts to move to value-based payment will add to physician work. For this reason, the ABFM is investing heavily to align continuous certification with value-based payment requirements, in a manner that will both reduce burden and bend value-based payments to primary care’s value. A description of these multi-faceted efforts is described below. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2019 Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program Go to Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program 2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) 2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Certificates Of Added Qualifications, Cognitive Expertise, Health Information Technology (HIT), Measurement, Performance Improvement, Population Health, Prime, Professionalism, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Annals of Family Medicine Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2019 Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program Go to Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program 2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) 2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net
2019 Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program Go to Motivation for Participation in the American Board of Family Medicine Certification Program
2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs)
2019 A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy Go to A Certification Board’s Tracking of their Specialty: The American Board of Family Medicine’s Data Collection Strategy
2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net
