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CORE QUESTIONS

CORE QUESTIONS

The summit planning task force, with input from all Family Medicine Organizations, have framed a series of core questions which we hope will drive our...

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What is the right balance between INNOVATION and STANDARDIZATION?

What is the right balance between INNOVATION and STANDARDIZATION?

1969 Program Requirements Current Outcomes of Family Medicine Residency—Milestones Other Readings Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice Redesigning...

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How can we improve the social accountability of graduate medical education?

How can we improve the social accountability of graduate medical education?

Residency Graduate Outcomes—Social Accountability It is critical that individual residencies and, more broadly, residency education responds to changing social and clinical needs, technology and educational...

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How Can Residency Education Support Graduates’ Abilities to Shift Practices and Populations over Time?

How Can Residency Education Support Graduates’ Abilities to Shift Practices and Populations over Time?

How should we shape residency to support the flexibility of scope and practice necessary for long term service to patients and communities? The COVID pandemic...

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How should we teach?

How should we teach?

Substantial evidence suggests that active learning is superior to passive learning, but most CME and residency didactics currently emphasize passive learning. How can residencies provide...

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What should we teach?

What should we teach?

What Clinical and Social Needs Does the Public Need Family Medicine to Address?   In 1969, Family Medicine brought innovation to residency training by placing...

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What does society need from the personal physician of the future?

What does society need from the personal physician of the future?

What Clinical and Social Needs Does the Public Need Family Medicine to Address?   4Cs of Primary Care Outcomes (plus a proposed 5th C) Comprehensiveness...

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Continuing Messages: Using the first Starfield Summit as a frame for discussing social determinants of health

Continuing Messages: Using the first Starfield Summit as a frame for discussing social determinants of health

Sara A. Martin, MSc Harvard Medical School, Class of 2017 Pisacano Scholar, Class of 2015 The opinions and views expressed here are those of the...

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Healthcare reform: Growing a team commensurate with the challenge at hand

Healthcare reform: Growing a team commensurate with the challenge at hand

Elizabeth V. Looney, MD Family Medicine Resident, Class of 2019 MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve Cleveland, Ohio Pisacano Scholar, Class of 2015 The opinions...

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