Toward a Unified and Collaborative Future: Creating a Strategic Plan for Family Medicine Research

Program Director Perspective on the ABFM Core Outcomes

“…In March 2023, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Review Committee for Family Medicine (RCFM) and American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) jointly proposed 12 core competencies for family medicine residency training. 1 The ABFM subsequently announced in June 2023 that it will require family medicine program directors to sequentially attest their graduating residents are competent in 15 outcomes that are based on the 12 core competencies. 2 Both the RCFM and the ABFM engaged in dialogue with the community of family medicine program directors (PDs) to inform their defined competencies, outcomes, and schedule of attestations.…”

“…2 Both the RCFM and the ABFM engaged in dialogue with the community of family medicine program directors (PDs) to inform their defined competencies, outcomes, and schedule of attestations. 1,2 Defined outcomes help us as PDs develop a culture of assessment for residents (individual assessment) and also programs (programmatic assessment). 3 The first 5 core outcomes in June 2024 to which we must attest a graduating resident are competent center continuity care, acute care, care of infants and children, communication, and professionalism.…”

“…On behalf of family medicine programs and faculty nationally, the RCFM and ABFM publicly committed to patients and communities that, upon completion of ACGMEaccredited training, family medicine residents would be competent in defined outcomes. 1 In June 2024, PDs will attest to 5 core outcomes for each graduating resident, increasing to 10 core outcomes for each graduating resident in June 2025, and 15 core outcomes for each graduating resident in June 2026. 2 PDs can leverage their CCCs and PECs to ensure they have comprehensive data to support their public attestation of graduating residents' competency.…”

Shaping the Future of Family Medicine Research: The 2023 National Family Medicine Research Summit

“…1) ADFM and NAPCRG will begin action planning for objectives that were not discussed at the Summit 2) A special issue of a journal is underway, with more than 20 articles on background and context that ties into the areas of the strategic plan for framing and a tangible product that members of the discipline will be able to hand others 3) We will reconvene with the FMLC organizations at the 1 The ABFM subsequently announced in June 2023 that it will require family medicine program directors to sequentially attest their graduating residents are competent in 15 outcomes that are based on the 12 core competencies. 2 Both the RCFM and the ABFM engaged in dialogue with the community of family medicine program directors (PDs) to inform their defined competencies, outcomes, and schedule of attestations.…”

“…2 Both the RCFM and the ABFM engaged in dialogue with the community of family medicine program directors (PDs) to inform their defined competencies, outcomes, and schedule of attestations. 1,2 Defined outcomes help us as PDs develop a culture of assessment for residents (individual assessment) and also programs (programmatic assessment). 3 The first 5 core outcomes in June 2024 to which we must attest a graduating resident are competent center continuity care, acute care, care of infants and children, communication, and professionalism.…”