Maintenance of Certification for Family Physicians (MC-FP) Self Assessment Modules (SAMs): The first year

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 398-403

  Hagen, Michael D ^a,b   Ivins, Douglas J ^c   Puffer, James C ^a   Rinaldo, Jason ^b   Roussel, Guy H ^a,e   Sumner, Walton ^d   Xu, Jinzhong ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA TULSA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Assessment Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SELF EVALUATION;

CERTIFICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745892940     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.398     Document Type: Article

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