The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) has created a COVID-19 Self-Directed Clinical Pilot that allows Diplomates to direct a custom rapid cycle quality improvement effort, regardless of whether they provide continuing care. This activity provides a mechanism for meeting the Performance Improvement (PI) requirement by describing the unprecedented and rapid changes that you had to make in the ways that you deliver care, regardless of practice type or scope. This PI can address many different dimensions of care—not just clinical quality measures but process effectiveness and efficiency, patient satisfaction, safety, and the other characteristics that the practice has identified.
To help walk you through this application process, the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP), with help from Ryan Kauffman, MD, FAAFP, AAFP Alternate Delegate and Quality Improvement Champion, made an instructional video. Watch Dr. Kauffman take you step-by-step through the online application!
This activity and the general Self-Directed Clinical activity have each been approved for 20 continuing medical education (CME) credits! The CME credit for the COVID-19 Self-Directed Clinical Pilot is retroactive to April 4, 2020, and the Self-Directed Clinical is retroactive to January 1, 2020.
In addition, the ABFM has extended deadlines for certification requirements as well. For more information, please visit the ABFM website.
If you have any questions regarding your PI activity requirement for ABFM Family Medicine Certification, please contact Ann Williamson at the ABFM. If you have questions about the video or would like to speak with an OAFP staff member, please contact Kaitlin McGuffie.