The Future of Family Medicine Residency Training is Our Future: A Call for Dialogue Across Our Community

[摘要] How should Family Medicine residencies evolve? This spring, even as COVID-19 highlighted US inattention to robust generalism in health care delivery and physician workforce, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Educution (ACGME) announced plans to develop a major revision of the Family Medicine residency guidelines. The ACGME Family Medicine writing group, led by Stacy Potts, MD, will convene in October 2020, with the formal process beginning in early 2021. This is a big deal. Residency matters: habits imprinted in residency endure for many years. Pharmaceutical choices developed in residency foretell graduates’ prescribing patterns for their entire careers. Operative complications in residency programs predict graduates complications1 years later and overall cost of care provided by graduates is imprinted in residency and lasts for at least 15 to 20 years.2 In addition, ACGME major revisions happen rarely: the last became effective in 2006! Given that residents trained under these guidelines will practice to 2060 and beyond, this revision will determine the shape and promise of FamilyMedicine for the next generation.

[学科分类] 过敏症与临床免疫学