Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians
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Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians.
PURPOSE To examine the relationship between maintenance of certification (MOC) and the clinical knowledge demonstrated by family physicians as they move further away from formal training. METHOD Performances of 10,801 examinees-2,440 seeking initial certification; 8,361 seeking MOC-on the summer 2009 American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification examination were compared across 30 co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Family Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1544-1709,1544-1717
DOI: 10.1370/afm.531