This book outlines the basic structure and processes of family medicine residency education programs. Family medicine residency programs are complex adaptive learning organizations that involve people, processes, procedures, buildings, budgets, high stakes, mistakes, mission statements, strategies, schedules, curricula, faculty, and residents. Residency program faculty are faced with many challenges, and this book gives them and others who are interested or involved in residency programs a clear and comprehensive breakdown of family medicine graduate medical education.
The volume opens with detailed overviews of several family medicine organizations that support residency programs and faculty. Subsequent chapters cover a range of topics, including best practices in resident assessment and evaluation and best practices pertinent to the development of teaching and administrative skills for faculty. Furthermore, chapters explain necessary residency education accreditation requirements, which includes the understanding of the accreditation requirements, board certification requirements, Medicare graduate medical education funding policies, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) billing regulations. All authors have been family medicine residency program directors or faculty or have been intimately involved in residency program education.
Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine offers residency program directors, faculty, and residency administrators a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of family medicine residency education as well as specific administrative and educational best practices for residency education. This book will also be useful to those physicians with experience in their clinical field, but not in educational pedagogy and andragogy.
Dr. Kellerman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita (KUSM-W). Previously he was the Program Director of the KUSM - Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program at Smoky Hill - Salina, Kansas. In his current position as department chair, he is responsible for the oversight of three family medicine residency programs. Dr. Kellerman is a past president and board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AFFP). He has edited 16 books, including 13 editions of Conn's Current Therapy (Elsevier) and was the medical editor and moderator for FP Audio, a product of the AAFP. He was an appointed member of the Institute of Medicine committee on Innovation in Health Professional Education. Among his awards are the University of Kansas School of Medicine Jayhawk Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentorship.
Dr. Irwin is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the KUSM - Wichita. She is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the KUSM-Wichita and serves as the campus Designated Institutional Officer, ensuring that 14 residency and fellowship programs in multiple specialties meet ACGME accreditation requirements. Previously, Dr. Irwin was the Program Director of the KUSM - Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program at Wesley Medical Center. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) and the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation. In 2023, she was awarded the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Exemplary Teacher of the Year Award for full time faculty.
