It Takes a Village to Redesign Residencies…

After two years of re-envisioning family medicine residency education, 1–3 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) released draft standards for family medicine resi dencies for public comment on December 13, 2021. The Family Medicine Review Committee will revise them. If all goes well, the standards be approved by the ACGME Board of Directors in June 2022 and become active by July 2023. ABFM believes that these standards represent the most significant change in family medicine resi dency education since the 1970s. They are a serious response to the dramatic changes in patients and in health care since our founding in 1969: They prom ise a pathway for broad scope family physicians to play a major role in healing health care and the communities they serve. Further specification is necessary, but we are hopeful for the future.