Family medicine certification longitudinal assessment becomes permanent

S Assessment - J Am Board Fam Med, 2021 - Am Board Family Med
On April 29, 2021, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Committee on
Continuing Certification approved the American Board of Family Medicine's (ABFM's) …

American Board of Family Medicine Rolls Out Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA) as 2019 Pilot

J Ireland - J Am Board Fam Med, 2019 - Am Board Family Med
In response to requests from board-certified family physicians, American Board of Family
Medicine (ABFM) has announced a new pilot program for 2019 to assess the value and …

[PDF][PDF] Family medicine certification longitudinal assessment after one year

WP Newton, K Rode, T O'Neill, R Fain, E Baxley… - 2020 - Am Board Family Med
On January 4, 2019, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launched the Family
Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA) pilot as an alternative to the 1-day …

[PDF][PDF] Longitudinal assessment: where we are and why it is important

WP Newton, K Rode, T O'Neill, R Fain, E Baxley - 2019 - Am Board Family Med
On January 4, 2019, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launched the Family
Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment (FMCLA) pilot project as an alternative to …

Using the family medicine certification longitudinal assessment to make summative decisions

TR O'Neill, WP Newton, JE Brady, D Spogen - 2019 - Am Board Family Med
On January 4, 2019, the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launched the Family
Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment1 (FMCLA) pilot. Our hope is that FMCLA will …

[HTML][HTML] From the American Board of Family Medicine: BUILDING PRIORITIES IN HEALTH & HEALTH CARE INTO ABFM'S KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENTS

WP Newton, L Handler, M Magill - Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In January 2021, the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
decided that emerging priorities in health and health care should become an explicit …

[PDF][PDF] The decline in family medicine in-training examination scores: what we know and why it matters

WP Newton, T Wang, TR O'Neill - 2023 - Am Board Family Med
Since the first Board examination in Ophthalmology in 1916, assessment of cognitive
expertise has been foundational to Board Certification. Since then, there have been …

Connecting purpose and performance: rethinking the purpose of maintenance of certification

AE Harman, DO Warner… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - Am Board Family Med
American Boards of Medical Specialties have emphasized single point in time testing for
summative assessment of cognitive expertise necessary for board certification. In 2016, 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) …

A message from the president of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

JC Puffer - 2016 - Am Board Family Med
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 …