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Home Research Research Library Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs Transforming Training to Build the Family Physician Workforce Our Country Needs 2015 Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Tuggy, Michael L, Pugno, Perry A, Peterson, Lars E, Brungardt, S H, Hoekzema, Grant S, Jones, S M, Weida, Jane A, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Payment, Quality Of Care, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Affordable Care Act has spurred significant change in the US health care system, including expansion of Medicaid and private insurance coverage to millions of Americans. As a result, the need for the medical education continuum to produce a family physician workforce that is sizable enough and highly skilled is significant. These two interdependent goals have emerged as top priorities for Family Medicine for America’s Health, a new, 5-year, $21 million collaborative strategic effort of the eight US family medicine organizations to lead continued change in the US health care system. To achieve these important goals, reforms are needed across the entire educational continuum, including how we recruit, train, and help practicing family physicians refresh their skills. Such reforms must provide opportunities to acquire skills needed in new practice and payment environments, to incorporate new educational standards that reflect the public’s expectations of family physicians, to collaborate with our primary care colleagues to develop effective interprofessional training, and to design educational programs that are socially accountable to the patients, families, and communities we serve. Through Family Medicine for America’s Health, the discipline is well positioned to emerge as a leader in primary care workforce development and educational quality. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US 2015 Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance Go to Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance
Author(s) Hughes, Lauren S, Tuggy, Michael L, Pugno, Perry A, Peterson, Lars E, Brungardt, S H, Hoekzema, Grant S, Jones, S M, Weida, Jane A, and Bazemore, Andrew W Topic(s) Education & Training, Family Medicine Certification, Role of Primary Care, and Achieving Health System Goals Keyword(s) Cost Of Care, Graduate Medical Education, Payment, Quality Of Care, and Self-Assessment And Lifelong Learning Volume Family Medicine Source Family Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care 2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology 2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US 2015 Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance Go to Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance
2021 How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care Go to How Comprehensive Medication Management Contributes to Foundational Elements of Primary Care
2024 Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology Go to Primary Care Physicians’ Satisfaction With Interoperable Health Information Technology
2022 Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US Go to Strengthening Primary Care to Improve Health Outcomes in the US
2015 Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance Go to Family physicians’ scope of practice and American Board of Family Medicine recertification examination performance
