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The One-Day Family Medicine Certification Examination is divided into four separate sections of equal length and 100 minutes of pooled break time is available to be used between sections.
Exam Section Exam Section Format Time Allotted
Section 1 75 Multiple Choice Questions 95 Minutes
Section 2 75 Multiple Choice Questions 95 Minutes
Section 3 75 Multiple Choice Questions 95 Minutes
Section 4 75 Multiple Choice Questions 95 Minutes
It is administered and proctored by staff at Prometric in approximately 350 locations around the United States and 180 international locations.
You do not need to have extensive familiarity with computers, but you should have experience with the use of a computer keyboard and mouse. Computer-based testing functions include the ability to navigate forward and backward through the examination, mark items for further review, highlight/strikeout question content, review answered, unanswered and marked items. A listing of completed questions, incomplete questions, and marked items may be accessed at any time during the examination for the currently active section. You must review or change items prior to the time expiration for each section. Once you end an exam section, or the exam has timed out, you cannot return to the questions in that section. The computer-based examination contains a clock showing the time remaining in the top center of the exam screen.
The test plan specifications for the current Secure One-Day Family Medicine Certification Examination administered in a test center, provides you with the targeted percentage of questions in each content category of your examination. The test plan specifications outline also includes the list of available modules that will be available during your examination. You will have the opportunity to select one of these modules prior to starting section two of your examination.
Prometric also offers a "Test Drive," if you wish to become familiar with the testing process and the testing center before your exam day. This is a 30-minute orientation in which the Prometric staff will allow you to experience the check-in/registration process, take a 15-minute non-medical related sample test, and introduce you to the staff and surroundings, such as parking and entrances
Cardiovascular 12%
Endocrine 8%
Gastrointestinal 7%
Hematologic/Immune 3%
Integumentary 6%
Musculoskeletal 12%
Nephrologic 3%
Neurologic 3%
Nonspecific 9%
Psychogenic 7%
Reproductive—Female 4%
Reproductive—Male 1%
Respiratory 13%
Special Sensory 2%
Population-based Care 5%
This includes topics such as biostatistics and
epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, prevention,
health policy and legal issues, bioterror, quality
improvement, and geographic/urban/rural issues.
Patient-based Systems 5%
This includes topics such as clinical decision-making,
communication and doctor-patient interaction, family
and cultural issues, ethics, palliative care,and end-of-life
care.