PHOENIX NEWSLETTER - June 2021

Re-Envisioning Family Medicine Residency Training Education

Over 3,500 family physicians and residents participants.

June 1, 2021

The national summit on the future of Family Medicine residency education was held in December 2020. Over 3,500 family physicians and residents participated in focus groups, surveys, and the summit. We are excited to share that the peer reviewed evidence-based reviews and commentaries have been completed and are being posted on the Family Medicine journal website. They also will be sent to the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Family Medicine Review Committee and will be published in a dedicated issue of Family Medicine in July. The summit website RE-ENVISIONING FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY EDUCATION provides key documents, the results of focus groups and surveys, and will add the articles when they are published.

The ball is now in the court of ACGME committee. They have defined the themes for the new standards and will now begin to write a more-specific version. Our community will have a chance to give input—speak up!—and the ABFM will also consider any changes necessary in board eligibility going forward.