Transforming a Family Medicine Residency Into a Community-Oriented Learning Environment

Integrating improvement learning into a family medicine residency curriculum.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Knowledge of improvement practices is a critical skill for family medicine residents who will lead patient-centered medical homes. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education includes systems-based practice and improvement knowledge as a core competency for residency education. The objective of this report is to describe the 6-year implementation and devel...

Developing online learning modules in a family medicine residency.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Online modules offer an opportunity to overcome barriers to educational delivery. Such approaches can require significant investment dependent on the development model used. There is little in the literature on the formative assessment of design and development. Better understanding is needed to determine effective methods of training and supporting faculty authors. ...

Non-musculoskeletal sports medicine learning in family medicine residency programs.

Integrating abortion training into family medicine residency programs.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family physicians provide many office-based procedures in primary care settings. While first-trimester abortion is a procedure appropriate for and performed by family physicians, few residency programs offer routine training in this skill. This study explored the experience of residency programs that have initiated or are in the process of initiating required abortion ...

Occupational and environmental medicine in a family medicine residency.

Well-rounded instruction in occupational medicine as part of family medicine residency training is feasible through a program that balances a longitudinal curriculum of monthly occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) lectures, community-based OEM patient care, and worksite assessment. Such training would help equip family medicine residents to integrate occupational medicine into their pr...