Learning Networks: How Family Medicine Departments Are Meeting the Requirement.

Background And Objectives: In 2023, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education added participation within a "learning collaborative" or "learning network" (LN) as a requirement for family medicine residencies. The structure and scope of what makes an acceptable LN was only vaguely defined. The purpose of this study was to learn how many family medicine residencies associated with departments already belong to LNs, the purpose and funding of these existing LNs, and barriers to entering LNs.

Racial Justice Curricula in Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Survey of Program Directors.

Background And Objectives: Structural racism is a cause of health disparities. Graduate medical education is tasked with training physicians who understand and address disparities. Addressing health disparities includes education on racism, such as racial justice curricula (RJC).

Resident Remediation in Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Survey of Program Directors.

Background And Objectives: Identifying underperforming residents and helping them become fully competent physicians is an important faculty responsibility. The process to identify and remediate these learners varies greatly between programs. The objective of this study was to evaluate the remediation landscape in family medicine residency programs by investigating resident remediation characteristics, tools to improve the process, and remediation challenges.

Validation of a Crisis Standards of Care Model for Prioritization of Limited Resources During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Crisis in an Urban, Safety-Net, Academic Medical Center.

Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare resources even in wealthy nations, necessitating rationing of limited resources without previously established crisis standards of care protocols. In Massachusetts, triage guidelines were designed based on acute illness and chronic life-limiting conditions. In this study, we sought to retrospectively validate this protocol to cohorts of critically ill patients from our hospital.

Hypothyroidism: Diagnosis and Treatment.

Clinical hypothyroidism affects one in 300 people in the United States, with a higher prevalence among female and older patients. Symptoms range from minimal to life-threatening (myxedema coma); more common symptoms include cold intolerance, fatigue, weight gain, dry skin, constipation, and voice changes. The signs and symptoms that suggest thyroid dysfunction are nonspecific and nondiagnostic, especially early in disease presentation; therefore, a diagnosis is based on blood levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone and free thyroxine.

Continuity of Specialty Pharmacy Practice: A Survey of PGY-2 Pharmacy Residency Graduates.

Background: Literature regarding career trajectory for postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) pharmacy residency specialty-trained pharmacists is limited.

Objective: The objective of our study is to describe PGY-2 pharmacy residency training on career practice and satisfaction.

Methods: A cross-sectional study surveyed graduates of PGY-2 pharmacy residency programs.

Overview and Assessment of a Full-time Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Part-time faculty development (FD) fellowships help faculty become successful and effective teachers in medicine. Fulltime FD fellowships provide a unique and promising model to train and retain high-quality faculty. This article presents an overview of a well-established, fulltime FD fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and the results from a survey of its graduates regarding fellowship experiences and their career trajectories.

Physician Factors Associated with Polypharmacy and Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use.

Background: Despite accumulating evidence about the harm of polypharmacy in family medicine, few studies have investigated factors related to polypharmacy. The objective of this study was to explore factors related to physicians' prescribing behavior.

Methods: We conducted a survey of physicians at 5 family medicine residency practices and a linked health record review of their patients ≥65 years old.

Integration of Clinical Pharmacists in Family Medicine Residency Programs.

Background And Objectives: Clinical pharmacists are valued educators and practitioners within family medicine residency programs (FMRPs). Since the last survey of clinical pharmacists within FMRPs, there have been significant advancements to pharmacy education and training as well as growth of interprofessional education and collaborative practice within family medicine. The objective of this study is to describe the integration of clinical pharmacists within FMRPs.