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Home Research Research Library Measuring Graduate Medical Education Outcomes to Honor the Social Contract Measuring Graduate Medical Education Outcomes to Honor the Social Contract 2022 Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, George, Brian C, Holmboe, Eric S, Bazemore, Andrew W, Westfall, John M, and Bitton, Asaf Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, and Graduate Medical Education Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine The graduate medical education (GME) system is heavily subsidized by the public in return for producing physicians who meet society’s needs. Under the terms of this implicit social contract, decisions about how this funding is allocated are deferred to the individual training sites. Institutions receiving public funding face potential conflicts of interest, which have at times prioritized institutional purposes and needs over societal needs, highlighting that there is little public accountability for how such funding is used. The cost and institutional burden of assessing many fundamental GME outcomes, such as specialty, geographic physician distribution, training-imprinted cost behaviors, and populations served, could be mitigated as data sources and methods for assessing GME outcomes and guiding training improvement already exist. This new capacity to assess system-level outcomes could help institutions and policymakers strategically address the greatest public needs. Measurement of educational outcomes can also be used to guide training improvement at every level of the educational system (i.e., the individual trainee, individual teaching institution, and collective GME system levels). There are good examples of institutions, states, and training consortia that are already assessing and using GME outcomes in these ways. The ultimate outcome could be a GME system that better meets the needs of society and better honors what is now only an implicit social contract. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) 2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) 2013 Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians Go to Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians 2024 The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine Go to The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine
Author(s) Phillips, Robert L, George, Brian C, Holmboe, Eric S, Bazemore, Andrew W, Westfall, John M, and Bitton, Asaf Topic(s) Education & Training, and Family Medicine Certification Keyword(s) Cognitive Expertise, and Graduate Medical Education Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) 2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) 2013 Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians Go to Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians 2024 The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine Go to The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine
2016 “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams) Go to “the End of the Beginning” for Clinical Simulation in the Abfm Self-Assessment Modules (Sams)
2020 Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE) Go to Integrating Community and Clinical Data to Assess Patient Risks with A Population Health Assessment Engine (PHATE)
2013 Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians Go to Maintenance of certification and its association with the clinical knowledge of family physicians
2024 The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine Go to The Role of Residency Accreditation Program Requirements on Scholarly Activity in Family Medicine