Family Medicine Certification Exam (ABFM) Overview
Family medicine is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). Its board certification exam — commonly called the ABFM — is what a family physician passes to earn certification and again to maintain it, resetting the ten-year certification cycle each time. Whether you are sitting for the exam for the first time or recertifying, we pair you with a tutor who knows it well.
How the ABFM Is Administered
The ABFM is a one-day exam divided into four 95-minute sections of 75 questions each, with 100 minutes of pooled break time available between the sections. Every question is single-best-answer, multiple choice.
What the ABFM Covers
The exam measures your ability to make sound diagnostic and management decisions across the breadth of family medicine. Content spans cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, integumentary, nephrologic and neurologic, psychogenic, and reproductive (female and male) care, along with population-based care and patient-based systems, among other categories.
Why Choose Medlearnity for ABFM Tutoring
We pair you with an ABFM tutor who is an expert educator and has excelled on the Family Medicine Board Certification Exam. Every session is built around you — your lesson plan, study schedule, test-taking drills, and homework — and each session recording is emailed to you so you can review it at your own pace.
Our tutors are practicing physicians who trained at the top hospitals in the country. That daily clinical experience means they understand both the medicine and the way board examiners write questions, and they lean on proven methods like spaced repetition and active recall so you retain high-yield material and study efficiently.
What to Expect from ABFM Tutoring
At Medlearnity, students come first. Preparing for the ABFM alongside a demanding clinical schedule can feel intimidating, so we give every resident’s and physician’s situation our close attention. In your sessions you will:
- Work through high-yield ABFM content and targeted question drills with a tutor who knows the exam.
- Meet on an easy-to-use online whiteboard platform, with every session recorded and emailed to you in HD so you can review it at 1.5x or 2x speed.
- Stay in close contact between sessions by email and phone, with a study schedule tuned to your test date.
- Sharpen your test-taking strategy — pacing, reading question stems, and rationalizing the best answer — around your own strengths and gaps.
The trial session is heavily discounted, so you can experience the caliber of our ABFM tutoring firsthand — without any obligation.