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CORE QUESTIONS
February 19, 2026
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 focus groups and surveys, the national summit...
What is the right balance between INNOVATION and STANDARDIZATION?
February 19, 2026
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 Residency Training Length of Training Pilot A...
How can we improve the social accountability of graduate medical education?
February 19, 2026
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 theories. How effective are current mechanisms of...
How Can Residency Education Support Graduates’ Abilities to Shift Practices and Populations over Time?
February 19, 2026
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 has focused attention to the value of...
How should we teach?
February 19, 2026
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 an active, experiential learning environment? What new...
What should we teach?
February 19, 2026
What Clinical and Social Needs Does the Public Need Family Medicine to Address? In 1969, Family Medicine brought innovation to residency training by placing residency training in communitiesand incorporating behavioral health...
What does society need from the personal physician of the future?
February 19, 2026
What Clinical and Social Needs Does the Public Need Family Medicine to Address? 4Cs of Primary Care Outcomes (plus a proposed 5th C) Comprehensiveness Continuity Coordination FirstContact Community Engagement There is...
Continuing Messages: Using the first Starfield Summit as a frame for discussing social determinants of health
April 17, 2017
Sara A. Martin, MScHarvard Medical School, Class of 2017Pisacano Scholar, Class of 2015 The opinions and views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent or reflect the...
Healthcare reform: Growing a team commensurate with the challenge at hand
August 29, 2016
Elizabeth V. Looney, MDFamily Medicine Resident, Class of 2019MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western ReserveCleveland, OhioPisacano Scholar, Class of 2015 The opinions and views expressed here are those of the author and do...