AMA debuts $15M initiative to revamp residency training: 5 insights

Practice Management

The American Medical Association launched a new $15 million competitive grant initiative aimed at improving residency training.

Here are five things to know:

1. The AMA Reimagining Residency Initiative will support innovations aimed at preparing future physicians for the transition from medical school to residency, developing the necessary skills for practice and training in an environment conducive to student well-being.

2. The grant will be passed out over five years to at max eight programs among U.S. graduate medical education sponsors, medical schools, health systems and/or medical specialty societies.

3. Funding will be awarded for:

  • Improving the transition from medical school to residency
  • Ensuring practice readiness for residency curricula modification
  • Optimizing the learning environment

4. The eight grantees will meet to agree upon standardized criteria for student assessment, resident selection procedures, onboarding and transition of students to residency, off-cycle resident selection, core curriculum for residents in health systems science and a common evaluation program that measures performance, patient outcomes and learner well-being.

5. The initiative builds on the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiativelaunched in 2013. The new partner organizations will work with the AMA's 32 medical school consortium, which was created through the AMA ACME initiative. Since its launch, the ACME initiative has impacted more than 19,000 medical students.

Here is more information on the new initiative.

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