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Show Dr. Evere C . DiJtobert J. Eyers, Park CityTutah, has been named a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP) as a result of passing a certification examination offered by the ABFP. He is now certified in the medical specialty of family practice. The intensive 2-day written writ-ten examination is designed to v prove the candidate's ability in the areas of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, obstet-rics, gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and community medicine. To qualify for the examination exam-ination a physician must have successfully completed three years of residency training in family practice. There are some 375 such training programs in teaching teach-ing hospitals and university medical centers across the U.S. ABFP diplomates also must continue to show proof of competence in the field of comprehensive, V continuing care of the family by being recertified every . six years. No other medical specialty requires diplomats to prove competence on a continuing basis. - The latest group of diplomates diplo-mates brings the total number to more than 22,000. Most are members of the Academy of Family Physicians, Physi-cians, the national association associa-tion of family doctors. The Academy was the first national M.D. group to req uire members to take continuing medical study, and was chiefly responsible for securing specialty status for family practice. This year is the tenth anniversary of the specialty. |