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Home Research Research Library Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination Validating the Test Plan Specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine’s Certification Examination 2019 Author(s) O’Neill, Thomas R, Peabody, Michael R, Stelter, Keith L, Puffer, James C, and Brady, John E Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, and Psychometrics Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Purpose: To demonstrate the degree to which the American Board of Family Medicine’s certification examination is representative of family physician practice with regard to frequency of diagnoses encounter and the criticality of the diagnoses.Methods: Data from 2012 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey was used to assess the frequency of diagnoses encountered by family physicians nationally. These diagnoses were also rated by a panel of content experts for how critical it was to diagnose and treat the condition correctly and then assign the condition to 1 of the 16 content categories used on the American Board of Family Medicine examination. These ratings of frequency and criticality were used to create 7 different new schemas to compute percentages for the content categories.Results: The content category percentages for the 7 different schemas correlated with the 2006 to 2016 test plan percentages from 0.50 to 0.90 with the frequency conditions being more highly correlated and the criticality conditions being less correlated.Conclusions: This study supports the continued use of the current Family Medicine Certification Examination content specifications as being representative of current family medicine practice; however, small adjustments might be warranted to permit better representation of the criticality of the topics. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2020 Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification Go to Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification 2011 The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers Go to The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers 2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning 2013 Family physician participation in quality improvement Go to Family physician participation in quality improvement
Author(s) O’Neill, Thomas R, Peabody, Michael R, Stelter, Keith L, Puffer, James C, and Brady, John E Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, and Psychometrics Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2020 Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification Go to Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification 2011 The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers Go to The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers 2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning 2013 Family physician participation in quality improvement Go to Family physician participation in quality improvement
2020 Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification Go to Associations Between Medical Education Assessments and American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Score and Failure to Obtain Certification
2011 The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers Go to The reliability of ABFM examinations: implications for test-takers
2013 The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning Go to The ABFM begins to use differential item functioning
2013 Family physician participation in quality improvement Go to Family physician participation in quality improvement