Five Key Leadership Actions Needed to Redesign Family Medicine Residencies

Family planning training in US family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family planning is among the most common services family physicians provide. Evidence that family doctors are not offering the broadest range of these services prompted this study of family planning training in family medicine residency programs. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional survey of program directors and chief residents at US family medicine residencies...

An emerging epidemic of innovation in family medicine residencies.

Research funding and mentoring in family medicine residencies.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study's purpose was to measure the current status of research funding and mentoring in family medicine residencies and to ascertain what resources are needed to increase residencies' research output. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of family medicine residency program directors in the United States. We measured grant funding sources, availability of me...

Transforming primary care residency training: a collaborative faculty development initiative among family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric residencies.

PROBLEM The scope and scale of developments in health care redesign have not been sufficiently adopted in primary care residency programs. APPROACH The interdisciplinary Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative was created to teach faculty how to accelerate revisions in primary care residency training. The program focused on skill development in teamwork, change management, leadership, pop...

Physician Leadership "Group Responsibility" as Key to Accountability in Medicine.