Dedicated Time for Education Is Essential to the Residency Learning Environment

[摘要] In June 2019, the Accreditation Council of GraduateMedical Education (ACGME) reduced faculty dedicated educational time for Family Medicine residencies by approximately two-thirds. Before that time,the ACGME required sponsoring institutions to provide Family Medicine Residency Directors with 0.7FTE for educational and administrative responsibilities and 0.6 FTE educational time for each core faculty member, with 1 core faculty member requiredfor every 6 residents. The 2019 ACGME requirements were imposed as part of the common programrequirements for all residencies, despite formal objections from American Board of Family Medicine, theAmerican Academy of Family Physicians, and theCouncil of Academic Family Medicine. To cushionthe impact, as well as to support residency leadershipsuccession, the ACGME Family Medicine ReviewCommittee added a requirement for an assistant program director with 0.4 FTE devoted to residencyeducation. For a residency with 24 residents, the cumulative effect of the 2019 changes meant reductionof time dedicated to residency education from 3.5FTE to approximately 1.1 FTE starting in July 2019.

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