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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. ABFM Research Read all 2018 Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity Go to Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity 2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries 2002 Modeling fatigue Go to Modeling fatigue 2018 Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification Go to Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification
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 2018 Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity Go to Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity 2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries 2002 Modeling fatigue Go to Modeling fatigue 2018 Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification Go to Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification
2018 Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity Go to Board Certified Family Physician Workforce: Progress in Racial and Ethnic Diversity
2014 Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries Go to Spending patterns in region of residency training and subsequent expenditures for care provided by practicing physicians for Medicare beneficiaries
2018 Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification Go to Predictors of Attrition From Family Medicine Board Certification