Abfm Foundation

Research directed towards improving the education, training and certification processes for family physicians.

The Foundation manages the center for professionalism & value in health care. The center, located in Washington dc, aims to study relationships between professionalism and value, promote their alignment, reduce health proffessionals' burden and better support outcome and quality improvement. The center also manages the prime registry, an outpatient clinical data registry and is a qualified clinical data registry.

The Foundation manages the publication of the journal of the american board of family medicine (jabfm) and of the annals of family medicine. Both journals publish peer reviewed articles from researchers who are addressing health care issues facing the patients in the care of family physicians.

Provide funding to support organizations engaged in providing educational opportunities, scholarly efforts or research in family medicine and administration of the same. Consider requests submitted to the Abfm or from other organizations involved in the fostering of education, scholarly analysis or research in family medicine; creation of an electronic architecture that enables real time interactions amoung health care related entities or researchers for the purpose of sharing data that drives improvements in the health care field.