The Center for Professionalism and Value

08/17/2026

What if physician training dollars were tied to patient access?

A new Commonwealth Fund blog explores how Sweden is aligning physician workforce planning with primary care access goals, including a benchmark of one primary care physician for every 1,100 residents. Meanwhile, recommendations for similar national workforce planning structures made in the U.S. over a decade ago were never funded or implemented. The result is a timely discussion about how graduate medical education (GME) investments can better support patient access to care.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4xQla7g

08/10/2026

Primary care is gaining clinicians but losing practice sites. New research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine examines what growing consolidation could mean for access to care. Read the article: https://bit.ly/4fP1RVF

07/14/2026

How you measure social risk matters.

New ABFM research using data from nearly 3 million patients finds that commonly used shortcuts, like relying on ZIP code–level data or clinic location, can misrepresent patients’ true social risk and weaken connections to health outcomes.

Using data from ~3 million patients across 809 clinics (American Family Cohort), researchers compared multiple social risk indices across geographic levels and found that more granular, neighborhood-level measures provide a more accurate picture. Read the study: https://bit.ly/3SUwvDQ

03/02/2026

New research in The Milbank Quarterly underscores a global truth: strong primary care requires sustained, strategic investment. Without it, health systems face workforce shortages, rising costs, and worsening patient outcomes. Read the article now: https://bit.ly/3MRJuDQ

02/07/2026

01/19/2026

Dr. King believed that healthcare was an important facet of the Civil Rights Movement. To support that vision, ABFM invites you to review our most recent Health Equity Progress Report to learn more about our commitment to advancing equity in family medicine. Read the report: https://bit.ly/49j8I6B

To honor the memory and sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the American Board of Family Medicine will be closed this , January 19, 2026.

01/17/2026

New research validates the Person-Centered Primary Care Measure (PCPCM) for assessing patient-centered care quality – the PCPCM can accurately capture both individual experiences and clinician performance, even with partial data. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qpl1Ee

01/16/2026

New research in JAMA Network Open reveals critical flaws in a widely-used health equity tool. The Neighborhood Atlas Area Deprivation Index (NA-ADI) has been guiding Medicare payment models and health research, but it contains calculation errors that systematically misclassify communities. Read the full study: https://bit.ly/49GsdVC

10/01/2025

New research reveals a concerning gap in primary care coordination for weight-loss medications. Read the study now: https://bit.ly/4gURVJc

09/03/2025

Together, ABMS boards and the AMA could create a comprehensive framework for organizational professionalism that matches the rigor of individual physician oversight.