The National Graduate Survey for Family Medicine

Redesigning Residency Training: Summary Findings From the Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) Project

“…It would also contribute to the development of new tools, such as better competency-based medical education assessments. 49 For example, the graduate survey developed for P4 contributed to the survey now used by the ABFM 48 to assess all family medicine graduates every 3 years, yielding important national outcomes for residencies. Federal GME financing should include economic models to support the development of such "collaboratories," enabled by the American Board of Family Medicine and the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.…”

Burnout in Young Family Physicians: Variation Across States

“…5 This survey included 2 validated questions measuring the emotional exhaustion ("I feel burned out from my work") and depersonalization ("I have become more callous toward people since I took this job") domains of burnout. 6 Each question had the following response options: never, a few times a year or less, once a month or less, a few times a month, once a week, a few times a week, every day.…”

Developing the National Family Medicine Graduate Survey

“…Aggregated reports by program would be provided to family medicine residencies. 18 The project was determined to be survey development and, thus, exempt from Institutional Review Board review. The ABFM paid for the development of the survey, and bears the costs of implementation and maintenance.…”

“…While residency-level reports were the primary reason for conducting the survey, the survey stakeholder group identified other uses for the data. 18 The ABFM deployed the survey in January 2016; Diplomates who graduated from residency in 2013 were alerted via e-mail multiple times throughout the year to complete the survey, which was available in their online portfolio. The inaugural survey had a response rate of 67% (2069 of 3088), and the residencyspecific reports were released in March 2017.…”

“…In 2014, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) and the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) convened a steering committee to identify the priorities for a national graduate survey, with the idea of using data collected for ABFM business purposes to fulfill the ACGME graduate survey requirement. 18 The committee included representatives from the AFMRD, ABFM, Council of Academic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance, ACGME, MedEdNet practice-based research network, and a recent graduate. The committee solicited proposals for survey development, and 2 of the authors (A.K.H.W.…”