Home Research Research Library Impact of One Versus Two Content-Specific Modules on American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Scores Impact of One Versus Two Content-Specific Modules on American Board of Family Medicine Certification Examination Scores 2017 Author(s) O’Neill, Thomas R, and Peabody, Michael R Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Psychometrics Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine BACKGROUND: We consider the question of whether requiring diplomates to select only 1 content-specific module, rather than 2, would increase, decrease, or produce no change in scores among the examinee population. METHODS: Examinees’ scores were computed under 3 different conditions: the examination core plus (1) both modules, (2) the module on which they scored higher, and (3) the module on which they scored lower. RESULTS: Although the differences in scores across the 3 conditions were relatively small, asking examinees to select only a single module would likely benefit more examinees than it would harm by a 4:1 ratio, assuming that the diplomates selected the module on which they scored higher. Only 114 of the 29,088 examinees (0.4%) would have changed from a pass to a fail, whereas 467 (1.6%) would have changed from fail to pass. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that having examinees select 1 module rather than 2 will likely produce a slight score increase for examinees. Simultaneously, it would improve the standardization of the examination across examinees. ABFM Research Read all 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2014 Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module Go to Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module 2014 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module 2023 Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents Go to Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents
Author(s) O’Neill, Thomas R, and Peabody, Michael R Topic(s) Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Psychometrics Volume Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Source Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence 2014 Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module Go to Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module 2014 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module 2023 Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents Go to Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents
2025 Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence Go to Leveraging Large Language Models to Advance Certification, Physician Learning, and Diagnostic Excellence
2014 Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module Go to Improving quality of care and guideline adherence for asthma through a group self-assessment module
2014 Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module Go to Family Physicians’ Quality Interventions and Performance Improvement Through the ABFM Diabetes Performance in Practice Module
2023 Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents Go to Academic Achievement and Competency in Rural and Urban Family Medicine Residents
