The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) introduced Maintenance of Certification for
Family Physicians in 2004 in response to policy adopted by the American Board of Medical …

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) introduced Maintenance of Certification for
Family Physicians (MC-FP) in 2004 in response to policy adopted by the American Board of …

Feedback is critically important in helping the American Board of Family Medicine
continuously improve the assessment tools that we use in our certification process. We used …

Introduction: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) was implemented to help physicians
remain current with evolving medical standards, but has been criticized for being irrelevant …

One of the major principles under which we operate at the American Board of Family
Medicine (ABFM) is our effort to continuously improve what we do. To do so we require data …

Introduction: In 2000, the American Board of Medical Specialties adopted Maintenance of
Certification (MOC) to replace intermittent, periodic recertification. MOC consists of 4 …

The beginning of 2010 officially completed the staged, 7-year transition of every single
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Diplomate into the new recertification paradigm …

Background/Purpose: The American College of Cardiology/American Heart
Association/Heart Failure Society of America guidelines for management of heart failure …

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of
the beginning.” With these words, Winston Churchill1 marked the Allied victory of the …

Abstract The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) has used a 60-item Multiple
Choice Question (MCQ) section followed by a Virtual Patient (VP) exercise in Maintenance …