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The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) was founded in 1947 to promote and maintain high-quality standards for family medicine, an offshoot of the classical general practitioner. It is headquartered in Leawood, Kansas .
BoardVitals is a medical specialty board certification preparation firm founded in 2012. The firm provides study material, question banks and exams for physicians, medical students, and others in the health-care industry. [1] [2] [3] In 2014, BoardVitals, based out of New York City, won the 2014 CATAPULT NYC competition for start-ups. [4]
The USMLE was created in the early 1990s. [13] The program replaced the multiple examinations, including the NBME Part Examination program and the FSMB's Federation Licensing Examination (FLEX) program, that offered paths to medical licensing in the medical profession.
Before 1992, the NBME Part I examination was the primary basic science examination for medical students at the end of their second year. When the three-part United States Medical Licensing Examination was launched, the NBME Part I exam was incorporated into its new format, the USMLE Step 1 examination.
Founded in February 1969 as the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP), the group was the 20th medical specialty to be recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties and was formed out of a need to encourage medical school graduates to enter general practice. It adopted its current name in 2005.
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS), the official certifying body for the American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) is a non-profit umbrella organization for sixteen medical specialty boards that certifies and re-certifies physicians in fourteen medical specialties in the United States and Canada.
The state's attorney made frequent objections during the patient plaintiff's testimonies, calling into question their relevance to the case; the court rejected the objections. [13] Physician plaintiffs then testified regarding the lack of medical language included in the current legislation, which makes it difficult for physicians to know when ...
Clinical peer review should be distinguished from the peer review that medical journals use to evaluate the merits of a scientific manuscript, from the peer review process used to evaluate health care research grant applications, and, also, from the process by which clinical teaching might be evaluated.