Looking to the Future

Abstract

Participants of the Residency Review and Redesign (R 3 P) Project have created a challenging strategic plan for pediatric residency education. In place of a list of prescriptions for immediate change, the R 3 P Committee recommends an ongoing project of goal-directed change, a quality improvement approach to resident education. It argues for changes based on evidence of important education outcomes that improve the health of children, adolescents, and young adults. Creation and maintenance of a process of ongoing, adaptive change will depend on

Linking Process to Outcome: Are We Training Pediatricians to Meet Evolving Health Care Needs?

“…In addition to this introductory article, the supplement consists of an article that provides historical context for the R 3 P Project, 9 articles that summarize each of the colloquia, [10][11][12] and articles that describe results of the surveys requested by the R 3 P Committee and Project Group, [13][14][15][16] along with a commentary, 17 an article that describes the likely consequences of maintenance of certification on residency education, 18 and an article that projects the likely long-term future of evolutionary change in pediatric graduate medical education. 19 The colloquium summaries document a dramatic change in thinking that occurred during the course of the project. At inception, the product, following past examples, 1,2 was to be a carefully considered set of recommendations intended to facilitate redesign of general pediatric residency education.…”