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FM AIRE is a GME Innovation pilot

Sponsored by the ACGME and ABFM, exploring outcomes of four-year family medicine residency training and time variable training beyond 36 months.

Read the FM-AIRE whitepaper

This initiative is designed to solicit and explore GME innovations from family medicine residencies that want to expand the length of training to:

  1. Develop advanced expertise and clinical mastery in family medicine that prepare graduates for contemporary and innovative practice
  2. Incorporate and expand principles of competency-based medical education, and
  3. Enhance the social responsiveness and community engagement of family medicine residency programs.

The nearly 10-year pilot is overseen by the Review Committee for Family Medicine of the ACGME and American Board of Family Medicine.

The FM AIRE Steering Committee provides advisory support and vision for the pilot which includes helping to set policy for the demonstration, reviewing applicants, ensuring communication with the other family medicine organizations and other specialties and catalyzing periodic and summative reporting of results. Project and program support for the learning collaborative are provided by the ABFM, ABFM Foundation and the ACGME AIRE office of special projects.

FM-AIRE Leadership

  • Grant Hoekzema, MD, FM-AIRE Co-Chair, ACGME
  • Warren Newton, MD, FM-AIRE Co-Chair, ABFM & ABFM Foundation
  • Jay Fetter, MSHA, FM-AIRE Program Manager and Project Director, ABFM & ABFM Foundation
  • Kate Halak, EdD, AIRE Office Special Projects Director, ACGME
  • Eileen Anthony, MJ, Executive Director, Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, ACGME

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