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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) Performance Improvement, Professionalism, Measurement, Cognitive Expertise, Population Health (PHATE), Prime, Certificates Of Added Qualifications, Health Information Technology (HIT), and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume 14(4):387-388 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 2013 Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care Go to Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care 2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) 2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination 2015 Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home Go to Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, and Role of Primary Care Keyword(s) Performance Improvement, Professionalism, Measurement, Cognitive Expertise, Population Health (PHATE), Prime, Certificates Of Added Qualifications, Health Information Technology (HIT), and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume 14(4):387-388 Source Annals of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2013 Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care Go to Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care 2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) 2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination 2015 Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home Go to Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home
2013 Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care Go to Relying on NPs and PAs Does Not Avoid the Need for Policy Solutions for Primary Care
2012 Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs) Go to Knowledge Assessment Responses in the ABFM Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs)
2012 Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination Go to Evaluating the Systematic Validity of a Medical Subspecialty Examination
2015 Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home Go to Patient empanelment: the importance of understanding who is at home in the medical home
