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Performance on the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Certification Examination: Are Superior Test-Taking Skills Alone Sufficient to Pass?

Thomas R. O'Neill, Kenneth D. Royal and James C. Puffer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2011, 24 (2) 175-180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2011.02.100162

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    Performance of Nonphysician Participants

    NameScaled ScoreCorrect (%)Ranking
    Participant 12024.0Outscored 0 physicians
    Participant 28028.9Outscored 0 physicians
    Participant 39028.9Outscored 0 physicians
    Participant 4*16035.1Outscored 4 physicians†

    • ↵* Out of more than 10,000 physicians tested, only one participant was able to outscore even the lowest-performing physicians.

    • ↵† Of the 4 physicians who were outperformed, 2 were international medical graduates (one with a history of multiple failures and one a first-time candidate) and 2 were US medical graduates who left many questions unanswered (one left 33 unanswered and one left 79 unanswered) on their examination.

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