Family Medicine Education
Family medicine will oversee the training of family physicians who are committed to excellence, steeped in the core values of the discipline, expert in providing family medicine’s basket of services within the New Model of Family Medicine, skilled at adapting to varying patient and community needs, and prepared to embrace new evidence-based technologies. Family medicine education will continue to include training in maternity care, the care of hospitalized patients, community and population health, and culturally effective and proficient care. Innovation in family medicine residency programs will be supported by the Residency Review Committee for Family Practice through 5-10 years of curricular flexibility to permit active experimentation and ongoing critical evaluation of competency-based education, expanded training programs and other strategies to prepare graduates for the New Model. In preparation for this process, every family medicine residency will implement electronic health records by 2006.
Implementation Update (January 2005): The following have been established as goals to achieve the family medicine education initiative:
- Develop new curricula centered on the history of family medicine and the New Model of Practice (first draft developed).
- Assist residency programs without electronic health records (EHR) with their efforts to find appropriate software at the best price. (PDW will offer opportunities for Program Directors to interact with several companies offering EHRs specifically developed for family medicine practices).
- Workshops offering "How to Teach the New Model of Practice" will be offered at the 2006 Program Directors Workshop.
- By late 2005 faculty development programs will be available to Program Directors and Program faculty specifically addressing the new model of practice. The National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPDD) II will begin October 2005. In this advanced NIPDD, topics will focus on how to ensure that residents are learning the new model of practice among other elements for the more senior program directors and faculty)
- Publish a "cookbook" for best practices in mentoring students interested in family medicine and family medicine residents. (will be distributed at the 2005 PDW).