Reimagining Residency: A Story of Possibility in GME
Reimagining Residency overview
Launched in June 2019 following the culmination of the Accelerating Change in Medical Education grant program to create the medical schools of the future, Reimagining Residency was a six-year, $20 million grant program to prompt and enable long-term transformation in medical residency training. The initiative was aimed at addressing the workforce needs of our current and future health care system and had three principle aims:
- Improve the transition from medical school to residency to preserve continuity in professional development
- Ensure readiness for practice through modifications of residency curricula
- Optimize the learning environment to support well-being among trainees, mentors and staff
As part of the grant program, the AMA awarded eleven $1.8 million grants to projects that represented medical schools, GME-sponsoring institutions, residency programs, health systems and a specialty society. Their projects addressed these priorities in the following areas related to GME:
- Competency-based medical education
- Transitions
- Learning environment
- Health systems science
- Workforce
Reimagining Residency by the numbers
- 4 single specialty and 7 multi-specialty projects
- 6 single institutions and 5 multi-institution projects
- ~10,700 medical students impacted
- ~10,400 residents/fellows impacted
- ~2,400 faculty impacted
- 343 specialty programs reached
Learn more about the initiative, each of the grant projects and the outcomes of their work.
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