The American Board of Family Medicine: Celebrating 50 Years of Continuing Transformation

Celebrating 50 years

5 0 years ago, what would soon evolve to become the profession of respiratory therapy emerged as the Canadian Society of Inhalation Therapy Technicians. One year following the inception of the Society, Canadian Inhalation Therapy published its first issue. From the outset of the profession, research, evaluation and knowledge translation have been fundamental to advancing our understanding of re...

Celebrating 50 Years of Occupational Therapy in Iran

Celebrating milestones is important. It provides a means of reflection and opportunity to give thanks to those that have come before us and as such fifty years of occupational therapy in Iran is a very worthy milestone to acknowledge. As we pause to celebrate this achievement, we take a moment to reflect on the journey to date, recognizing the accomplishments of many.  

Celebrating 50 years of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Celebrating family medicine research.

In this issue of Canadian Family Physician (CFP) we celebrate the growth and diversity of family medicine research in Canada. In the past 2 decades, Canada’s family medicine research enterprise has grown remarkably. Many academic family medicine departments across the country have developed strong core groups of funded family-physician and allied-health researchers with stable infrastructure an...

Cheating: its implications for American Board of Family Medicine examinees.

Cheating is undesirable and unethical, but, unfortunately, sometimes it does occur. Recent events at 3 American Board of Medical Specialties specialty boards have illustrated that the medical certification industry is not immune from this phenomenon. Although there are numerous moral and professional implications involved with cheating, we wish to address the implications of cheating from a psy...