(Press-News.org) Background and Goal: Family medicine residency programs are essential for training future primary care physicians. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) program requires family medicine residents to perform two scholarly projects. One must be a quality improvement project, and the second project type is at the program's discretion. This study assessed the scholarly activity output of family medicine residency programs in the U.S., identified institutional factors associated with increased scholarly activity, and determined how well these programs meet ACGME standards.
Study Approach: The study surveyed family medicine residency program directors from across the U.S. to gather data on their programs’ scholarly activity. The survey covered various aspects, including the types of scholarly work produced by residents, the availability of resources such as faculty mentorship and access to Institutional Review Boards, and how often residents exceeded the minimum scholarly activity requirements.
Main Results: 298 program directors completed the survey.
• More than half of the program directors reported fewer than 25% of their residents performed more scholarly activity than ACGME minimum requirements.
• The most common forms of scholarly output were letters to the editor, case reports, and population health projects.
• Only 16.9% of programs reported that more than 25% of their residents published peer-reviewed manuscripts. However, 49.6% reported that over 25% of residents presented their work at conferences, with poster presentations being more common than oral presentations.
• Programs that exceeded ACGME scholarly activity requirements were more likely to have robust infrastructure, including access to faculty mentorship, scholarly activity curricula, IRB, medical librarians, and statisticians.
• Programs struggling to meet ACGME requirements often lacked the necessary infrastructure to support resident scholarly activity. However, many programs expressed a desire to increase their residents’ scholarly output.
Why It Matters: Residency programs that provide strong support—such as mentorship, research support, and technical assistance—for increasing scholarly output help residents meet ACGME requirements and prepare them for future challenges in their medical careers.
Family Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Infrastructure, Output, and Dissemination: A CERA Survey
Bryce A. Ringwald, MD, et al
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, Columbus, Ohio
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Robust family medicine residency programs help residents meet scholarly output requirements
2024-09-23
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