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Home Research Research Library Shaping Keystones in a Time of Transformation: ABFM’s Efforts to Advance Leadership & Scholarship in Family Medicine Shaping Keystones in a Time of Transformation: ABFM’s Efforts to Advance Leadership & Scholarship in Family Medicine 2020 Author(s) Bazemore, Andrew W, Ireland, Jane, Cattoi, Robert, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Board News, Cost Of Care, Professionalism, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine At no time in the history of our specialty have our diplomates faced greater complexity or more rapid transformation of the health care delivery system, nor such incredible uncertainty and dynamism in their future roles within it.1 In addition to tackling the most complex clinical encounters,2 graduates now leave training expected to immediately understand a health system shaped by such towering forces as rapidly increasing consolidation, value-based and alternative payment models, measurement, internecine scope-of-practice battles, disruptive delivery innovations, genomics, big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Furthermore, the pace of health system change seems to be accelerating, as central players—such as Integrated Delivery Systems, Haven, Google, CVS, Optum, and HCA—grow in number, size, and market influence. ABFM Research Read all 2019 Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians Go to Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians 2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification 2025 Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model Go to Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model 2019 Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination Go to Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination
Author(s) Bazemore, Andrew W, Ireland, Jane, Cattoi, Robert, and Newton, Warren P Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Board News, Cost Of Care, Professionalism, and Quality Of Care Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2019 Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians Go to Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians 2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification 2025 Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model Go to Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model 2019 Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination Go to Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination
2019 Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians Go to Associations Between Burnout and Practice Organization in Family Physicians
2015 Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification Go to Smaller Practices Are Less Likely to Report PCMH Certification
2025 Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model Go to Evaluating primary care expenditure in Australia: the Primary Care Spend (PC Spend) model
2019 Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination Go to Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination