Phoenix Newsletter - October 2025 President’s Message: Enduring Commitments in a Time of Change Read President’s Message: Enduring Commitments in a Time of Change
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. ABFM Research Read all 2019 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: 2019 Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings Go to Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 2015 Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care Go to Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care
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 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: 2019 Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings Go to Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings 2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence 2015 Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care Go to Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care
2019 Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice: Go to Residency Program Characteristics and Individual Physician Practice Characteristics Associated With Family Physician Scope of Practice:
2019 Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings Go to Accountable Care Organizations Serving Deprived Communities Are Less Likely to Share in Savings
2013 Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence Go to Specialty board certification in the United States: issues and evidence
2015 Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care Go to Solo practitioners remain important contributors to primary care
