Re-Envisioning Family Medicine Residency Education: From Theory to Practice

The Decline in Family Medicine in-Training Examination Scores: What We Know and Why It Matters

“…It is well known that Family Medicine residencies have been impacted greatly by the pandemic; given their generalist skills, family medicine residents were often deployed to a wide variety of settings in hospitals, giving up their usual curricula to serve in diagnostic tents, hospital wards, and ICUs. This happened even as the ACGME 2019 reductions in required faculty time deeply impacted many Family Medicine residency programs, with conversion of educational time to clinical time 3 and, in some cases, dismissal of faculty. Family Medicine residents also received less clinical experience, as documented in the decline of the continuity visit count, and a decline in the number of patients seen changed as some symptom, such as cough, were often managed elsewhere, and some rotations, such as nursing homes, were changed or eliminated.…”

High-Stakes Knowledge Assessment at Abfm: What We Have Learned and How It Is Useful

“…[9][10][11][12] Building back is crucial.Warren P. Newton, MD, MPH, American Board of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, wnewton@theabfm.org; Thomas R. O'Neill, PhD, American Board of Family Medicine, toneill@theabfm.org; Ting Wang, PhD, American Board of Family Medicine, twang@theabfm.…”