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 33(1):156-159 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 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply 2016 The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team Go to The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team
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 33(1):156-159 Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations 2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone 2016 Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply Go to Intended vs Reported Scope of Practice–Reply 2016 The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team Go to The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team
2026 Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations Go to Primary Care Physician Continuity Is a Consistent Measure Associated with Lower Costs and Hospitalizations
2025 Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone Go to Natural Language Processing Improves Reliable Identification of COVID-19 Compared to Diagnostic Codes Alone
2016 The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team Go to The Diversity of Providers on the Family Medicine Team