Family medicine
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From 2020 to 2022, multiple medical schools transitioned from teaching patient care directly to online electives. Family medicine program directors reported on these learners' abilities to meet the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies during residency. The authors hypothesized an increased need for medical knowledge remediation in the 2023 Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) study. ⋯ Professionalism remains the top core competency requiring remediation. We found no associations between resident, program, training, or program director factors and the core competency requiring remediation, the number of residents needing remediation, or the percentage of residents who completed remediation.
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Building on research highlighting the success of tribal, rural, and underserved clerkships to increase students' intention to practice family medicine in these areas, we explored the perspectives of prospective precepting physicians and administrators to develop an optimal structure to facilitate recruitment of external preceptors. ⋯ As practice ownership shifts from physician-owned to health system ownership, administrators become the gatekeepers for prospective preceptors. Our findings demonstrate that integrating the compatible interests between physicians and administrators allows for the creation of a synergistic model that facilitates preceptor recruitment.
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Increasing diversity among medical educators is a vital step toward diversifying the physician workforce. This study examined how gender, race, and other attributes affect family medicine department chairs' experiences with sponsoring, mentoring, and coaching (SMC). We identified strategies at multiple levels to enhance SMC for faculty from underrepresented groups (URGs). ⋯ Understanding the experiences of URG faculty is paramount to improving the environment in academic medicine-paving the way to enhancing diversity in the health care sector. Institutions and individuals need to develop multilevel strategies for empowerment and support to actively make diverse faculty feel at home.
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Reports on the effects of changing the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 examination scoring to pass/fail are evolving in the medical literature. This Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance family medicine clerkship directors' study seeks to describe family medicine clerkship directors' perceptions on the impact of incorporation of Step 1 pass/fail score reporting on students' family medicine clerkship performance. ⋯ This study represents an early description of family medicine clerkship directors' perceived observations of the impact of Step 1 scoring changes on student performance. Continued investigation of the effects of USMLE Step 1 pass/fail scoring should occur.