The consequential validity of ABFM examinations

KD Royal, JC Puffer - 2014 - Annals Family Med
All that said, payment for primary care services still is not on par with that of subspecialist
physicians, a problem the AAFP continues to address through its advocacy efforts at the …

Dimensionality of the maintenance of certification for family physicians examination: evidence of construct validity

KD Royal, JC Puffer - 2013 - Annals Family Med
As we have mentioned previously, the psychometric model that the ABFM employs to score
its examinations is the Rasch model, a 1-parameter Item Response Theory (IRT) …

Think subscores are a helpful form of feedback? Think again

KD Royal, MW Hedgpeth - Journal of Veterinary Medical …, 2018 - jvme.utpjournals.press
Many educators believe subscores offer an easy approach for (1) discerning what students
know/can do, and (2) providing more analytical feedback to students. In addition, many …

Family Medicine Residency Curriculum Resource Is Now Live

M Theobald - 2013 - Annals Family Med
Mike Tuggy, MD, has been envisioning this for years: a shared, online repository of high-
quality residency curriculum created by residency programs.“We've got more than 450 family …