Content Areas of Family Medicine Residency Education
| Knowledge | Skills | Attitudes | Practice Characteristics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine | Preventive care | Procedures | Enjoys variety | Group care |
| Acute care | Disease management | Intellectually curious | Patient education | |
| Chronic disease care | Critical reasoning | Lifelong learning | Patient covenant | |
| End-of-life care | Critical inquiry | Comfortable with uncertainty | Continuing medical education for physicians and staff | |
| Mother-child care | Intuitive | |||
| Patients | Psychological knowledge | Consultation | Caring | Culturally sensitive practice |
| Sociocultural-economic background | Advocacy | Empathetic | Accessible and available | |
| Interviewing | Responsive | Up to date | ||
| Belief and values systems | Complexity management | Nonjudgmental | Responsive | |
| Genetic background | Interpersonal and | Values diversity | Evaluation of patients sought | |
| Family and relational context | communication skills | Relationship centered | ||
| Sociocultural-economic diversity | Patient centered | |||
| Honest | ||||
| Patient education | Ethical | |||
| Systems | Evidence based medicine | Complexity management | Values quality | Research contributions |
| Information management systems | Evidence-based medicine | Pragmatic | Just-in-time information | |
| Database skills | Accountability | Electronic health record (EHR) | ||
| Quality assurance | Coordinated team care | Responsibility | Asynchronous communications | |
| Health care delivery systems | Partnering and collaboration | Accessible system | Continuous quality improvement | |
| Health care financing | Negotiating | Cultural sensitivity | Published quality measures | |
| Public health | Integration of care across systems | Participatory attitude towards communities | Group of 3+ physicians | |
| Open access | ||||
| 24/7 availability across the practice | ||||
| Continuity across settings | ||||
| Physician leadership | ||||
| Integrated team-based care | ||||
| Special interest skills developed in each partner | ||||
| Financially solvent | ||||
| Community and population focused practice | ||||
| Self | Personal inventories | Leadership | Reflective | Availability discussed |
| Beliefs, values, attitudes | Personal and professional balance | Self-aware | Scope of care discussed | |
| Family and sociocultural legacies | Humble | |||
| Time management | Committed to excellence | |||
| Society and populations | Communities | Advocacy | Committed to service | Community involvement |
| Population-based health | Sociocultural-economic proficiency | Committed to equity | Population and practice database kept | |
| Health disparities |