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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 2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care 2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? 2009 The measure of family medicine Go to The measure of family medicine 2016 Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care Go to Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care
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 2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care 2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? 2009 The measure of family medicine Go to The measure of family medicine 2016 Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care Go to Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care
2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care
2015 Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use? Go to Do family physicians electronic health records support meaningful use?
2016 Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care Go to Solo and Small Practices: A Vital, Diverse Part of Primary Care