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 …

Introduction: Certification examinations used by American specialty boards have been the
sine qua non for demonstrating the knowledge sufficient for attainment of board certification …

The purpose of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification/maintenance of
certification examination is to measure the basic knowledge necessary to deliver high …

Background and Objectives: We sought to validate the family medicine shelf examination by
determining whether correlations exist between the US Medical Licensing Examination …

(ABMS). Each ABMS member board, of which ABFM is one, establishes the standards for
training within its specialty. These standards are used by ACGME Review Committees to …

T he Certification Examination of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has
been written annually. since 1969 and biannually since 1990.1, 2 In this series of four …

A common theme among family physicians who have performed poorly repeatedly on the
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) Maintenance of Certification (MC-FP) …

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) …

Background: We consider the question of whether requiring diplomates to select only 1
content-specific module, rather than 2, would increase, decrease, or produce no change in …

One of the routes for entry into practice for international medical graduates (IMGs) in Canada
entails completing some form of an in-practice assessment program. The latter route is …