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Continuing Board Certification: Seeing Our Way Forward

Graham T. McMahon and Warren P. Newton
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2020, 33 (Supplement) S10-S14; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.S1.190439
Graham T. McMahon
From the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Chicago, IL (GTM); American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), Lexington, KY (WN).
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Warren P. Newton
From the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Chicago, IL (GTM); American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), Lexington, KY (WN).
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