Creating a New Blueprint for Abfm Examinations

Family Medicine Certification Longitudinal Assessment after One Year

“…In addition, as a part of making the results of our examinations more useful to physicians, ABFM is developing and validating a new examination blueprint that we hope will support more effective learning. 3 A key question is the issue of whether Longitudinal Assessment allows ABFM to set a standard for the cognitive expertise necessary to be a board-certified family physician-does it perform comparably to the 1-day examination? 4 By design, FMCLA measures the same content and breadth of family medicine as the 1-day examination.…”