AMA Reimagining Residency Initiative

AMA News Release (09/27/22)

The American Medical Association's Reimagining Residency initiative funds programs designed to promote systemic change within graduate medical education (GME). Its focus categories cover competency-based medical education, transitions, learning environment, health systems science, and workforce. Grantees in the first category include the Promotion in Place project to establish a roadmap for time-variable competency-based medical education in residency training. Residents who realize competency before standard training concludes can transition early to independent practice until the originally targeted graduation date. Transition efforts include New York University's Transition to Residency Advantage project, whose goal is to shift GME programs from a one-size-fits-all model through coaching, personalized pathways, and enhanced assessment. The multi-institutional Goals of Life and Learning Delineated Project in the learning environment category trains residents following various career paths, cultivating a community dedicated to their clinical field and structural competency, health systems science, and leadership/advocacy. Health systems science grantees include Maine Medical Center's program to develop the Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education model to ready learners for interprofessional, team-based care. Finally, workforce-focused recipients include COMPADRE (California Oregon Medical Partnership to Address Disparities in Rural Education and Health), which seeks to resolve chronic physician shortages in underserved communities by better educating doctors in seven specialties.

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