THE FUTURE OF FAMILY MEDICINE RESIDENCY EDUCATION: THE SPECIALTY HAS SPOKEN

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Table 1

Fundamental Questions for Major Revision of Family Medicine Residency Guidelines¹

1.	What does society need from the personal physicians of the future?
2.	What should we teach?
3.	How should we teach?
4.	How will we prepare graduates for practice over their lifetimes?
5.	What is the right balance between innovation and regulation?
6.	How can we improve the social accountability of residency education?

Table 2

Key Interim Conclusions

1.	First Contact, Comprehensiveness, Continuity, Coordination with the addition of Community should be central to Family Medicine education.
2.	The residency practice is the curriculum.
3.	Competency-based assessment needs to be implemented as soon as is practical.
4.	A major goal of Family Medicine residency education is to produce master adaptive learners.
5.	Society needs both more innovation and better standardization in residencies.
6.	Residencies must become more socially accountable through continuous quality improvement of the residency education and clinical practice.
7.	We must invest in the future of the specialty by increasing diversity, recruiting future teachers and researchers, providing adequate faculty time and support, and preparing family physicians for leadership in health systems.