What is FM-AIRE?
A GME Innovation pilot sponsored by the ACGME and ABFM, exploring outcomes of 4-year family medicine residency training and time variable training beyond 36 months.
What is FM-AIRE for?
This initiative is designed to solicit and explore GME innovations from family medicine residencies that want to expand the length of training to develop advanced expertise and clinical mastery, incorporate and expand CBME, and enhance the social responsiveness and community engagement of family medicine residency programs.
Who is eligible to apply?
Family medicine residency programs and their sponsoring institutions with promising education and clinical designs.
What is FM-AIRE?
FM-AIRE is a GME Innovation pilot sponsored by the ACGME and ABFM, exploring outcomes of 4-year family medicine residency training and time variable training beyond 36 months.
This nearly decade long initiative is designed to solicit and explore GME innovations from family medicine residencies that want to expand the length of training to:
- Develop advanced expertise and clinical mastery in family medicine that prepare graduates for contemporary practice and innovative leadership
- Incorporate and expand principles of competency-based medical education
- Enhance the social responsiveness and community engagement of family medicine residency programs
Possible Innovations
Based on the belief that family medicine residency program leaders have important ideas, we’re looking for programs to propose GME and care delivery innovations by interleaved education pathways that prepare graduates for contemporary practice by extending training experience beyond 36 months.
That can mean:
- Fully-integrated four year residency focused on holistic professional development geared toward mastery within the scope of family physicians
- Integrated/interleaved, longitudinal fellowship equivalents that inspire residents to expand the scope and depth of practice, adding qualifications that expand comprehensiveness of care
- Comprehensive Family Medicine training with concentrations in specific areas of expertise, that move graduates further towards mastery in some particular domain of family medicine care, or leadership
Who is eligible to submit proposals?
- Test extended and time variable family medicine residency training time beyond 36 months, and
- Test integrated and interleaved four-year residencies with areas of concentration and/or fellowships that advance competencies consistent with the broad scope of family medicine, and
- Advance an explicit set of outcomes, as defined by the needs of society and the community served, and Catalyze a growth mindset that embraces competency based medical education and co-production of GME and care delivery innovation with residents, and
- Share what is learned with the family medicine community.
Questions, Eligibility and Application Information:
Contact Jay Fetter, FM AIRE Program Manager
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