In response to the shifting healthcare environment, the Association of American Medical Colleges revealed Tuesday a five-year plan to optimize and update graduate medical education, the residency and fellowship portion of medical education.
The plan revolves around three themes: investing in future physicians, optimizing the GME environment for learning, care and discovery, and preparing physicians and physician scientists with the necessary skills to practice in the 21st century.
The AAMC identified the following seven priorities to address in the next five years.
- Fine-tune the metrics of accountability in graduate medical education — including metrics for workforce, quality, institution, program and individuals.
- Align residency programs with societal needs and student goals.
- Build and collect evidence to help secure Congress' commitment to public funding of GME.
- Identify and develop environments that optimize learning.
- Improve the faculty environment.
- Help residents and new practitioners sufficiently prepare to practice 21st century medicine.
- Assess current and new educational models to optimize education, training and practice.
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