Feedback is critically important in helping the American Board of Family Medicine continuously improve the assessment tools that we use in our certification process. We used data in the evaluations provided after diplomates complete self-assessment activities to determine that the clinical simulations were not as useful as the knowledge assessments in helping family physicians improve their practices. This information led to our decision to no longer make the clinical simulations a mandatory part of the self-assessment and life-long learning component of continuous certification. Accordingly, we have uncoupled the clinical simulations from the knowledge assessments this past July.
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