PROGRESS ON A PILOT PROGRAM OF RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT DURING RESIDENCY

In late November 2017, the ADFM Research Development Committee reported on a proposal made to and approved by the American Board of Family Medicine to create a pilot program for a Family Medicine Physician Scientist Pathway (FM-PSP).1 In that commentary, we shared background and planned features of the program, designed as an alternative to current post-residency fellowship programs for residents who wish to pursue a research career in family medicine. Other primary care specialties employ a residency research pathway to recruit medical students with concurrent interest in a research career, but before the advent of the FM-PSP, the specialty of family medicine has lacked this essential tool.