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Family Medicine Certification Review Jeffrey L. Susman, Martin S. Lipsky, Matthew Hunsaker, Mitchell S. King, Robert W. Bales
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

In keeping with this mandate, the practice management lecture series at the 2005 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Scientific Assembly highlighted the use of technology in maintaining board certification. Of certification of physicians is board certification. The “Best of Medical Blogs - weekly review and blog carnival” is a weekly summary of the best posts from medical blogs. From Family Medicine Rocks: http://bit.ly/Z0ynE5. Best of Medical Blogs (BMB) is Being taken "out of context" is no longer the exception, it is the rule. We need more “old fashioned” doctors. Internal Medicine Certification Review; Family Medicine Certification Review; General Surgery Certification Review; General Pediatrics Certification Review; SPEX (Special Purpose Examination). In brief, to qualify, a hospitalist who is certified in IM (it is possible, but not guaranteed, that family medicine and pediatrics will develop similar pathways) will have to meet a certain inpatient volume requirement for 3 years, participate in hospital- focused self-evaluation and quality improvement modules (“Practice Improvement Module”, or PIM), and then pass a hospital medicine-focused exam. The final new element in Maintenance of Certification involves a Performance in Practice component, which replaces the old Computerized Record Review. Please email your suggestions for inclusion to clinicalcases@gmail.com. Wes: Maintaining Board Certification Every Two Years http://bit.ly/17gFAU9. Will be critical to the specialty in the coming years. There are currently 24 specialty boards (e.g., internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, radiology, preventive medicine, etc.) In the early years (usually the first five years of a specialty's existence), those with a certain level of experience will be able to "grandfather" in on the training requirements in a "practice track" and certify by passing the exam only.