How should we teach?
Substantial evidence suggests that active learning is superior to passive learning, but most CME and residency didactics currently emphasize passive learning. How can residencies provide an active, experiential learning environment? What new teaching technologies will improve outcomes for residency education?
Where should residency training occur? Family physicians are distributed broadly and must take care of all communities. Where should residencies be located?
What is the right duration for family medicine training. Since 1969, Family Medicine residency training has been 3 years. Is that still appropriate? Should we consider including a formal period after residencies in the way of other specialties?
More broadly, how should family medicine residencies implement more fully competency-based education?
Competency-based medical education for residents has been most completely developed in surgical specialties, but how should it be operationalized in a generalist discipline like Family Medicine, given the hundreds of identifiable competencies in managing patients with a single disease? What is the right balance between experience/time—for example, counting weeks of curriculum or numbers of visits (counting numbers) and explicit of specific clinical competencies?