The ABFM has changed the requirements for family physicians seeking to earn or maintain board certification. Physicians now must adhere to new MC-FP entry and re-entry requirments. Under the new schedule, a physician who does not pass the MC-FP exam within the three years following completion of residency training will be required to satisfy the MC-FP entry process to be eligible to take the exam and gain initial certification status. This process includes: completion of fifty (50) MC-FP points including at least one SAM and one approved Part IV activity; completion of one hundred fifty (150) credits of acceptable continuing medical education; three (3) MC-FP Process Payments and submission of an application for the examination with full payment of the examination fee.

This change also applies to previously certified family physicians who have never entered the MC-FP process.