How can we improve the social accountability of graduate medical education?
It is critical that individual residencies and, more broadly, residency education responds to changing social and clinical needs, technology and educational theories.
How effective are current mechanisms of continuous quality improvement for residencies?
More broadly, there has been increasing concern that the broader GME system is not meeting the needs of society as well as it should. Substantial public monies—Medicare DME and IME, Medicaid (in most states) and clinical revenue from Medicare and Medicaid as well as other funds support GME.
How can we increase transparency and better respond to the needs of the public?