Advances in the Cognitive Science and Their Implications for ABFM Knowledge Assessment

From Resident to Diplomate: The Purpose and Process of Becoming Board Certified

“…Ongoing independent assessments of cognitive expertise are necessary. 1,2 What is needed to become ABFM board certified? Probably most important is a personal commitment to professionalism.…”

The Decline in Family Medicine in-Training Examination Scores: What We Know and Why It Matters

“…4 Didactics represent a sizable investment of time for both residents and faculty; this data may suggest that didactic sessions are more than "nice to have"they may be critical for learning, which is consistent with what we are learning about learning. 5 And active learningcase-based, interactive, with prework-is the gold standard for supporting retrieval and integration of knowledge. Program directors have also offered the hypothesis that, with the pandemic, residents have been reading less-that the culture of reading about cases before and after the patient has been seen has suffered.…”