A Message from the Abfm President.

Message from the IOMP President, Dr. Kin Yin Cheung and the Chairman of the IOMP Education and Training Committee, Prof. John Damilakis on November 7, 2013: “International Day of Medical Physics”

Message of President of ISBT to 2nd International Conference on Transfusion Medicine/Plasma Industry in Tehran, Iran, May 10-11, 2011

Message from President : On ITSS Society Benefits

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2008 STFM annual conference theme: strengthen core & stimulate progress: assembling patient-centered medical homes.

For more than 25 years, the In-training-Examination (ITE) of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) has been a valuable resource for residency programs. An unusual aspect of this examination is that since 1981 an international program at the American University of Beirut has administered the ITE to its residents on the same day that it was given to residents in the United States. While Be...

The consequential validity of ABFM examinations.

Measurement scholar Samuel Messick, defines validity as “an integrated evaluative judgment of the degree to which empirical evidence and theoretical rationales support the adequacy and appropriateness of inferences and actions based on test scores. . . ” (p. 13). Messick’s definition of validity differed from those of previous validity theorists in that he acknowledged that test scores often af...