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In December 2007, the first AAIM Education Redesign Task Force published its first report.  The report contained the following recommendations:

  1. Graduate and continuing medical education should be organized around a core of internal medicine.
  2. Graduate medical education (GME) programs in internal medicine should fully adopt and implement competency-based education, evaluation, and advancement.
  3. GME programs should adopt and implement trainee-centered educational approaches.
  4. Ambulatory education for internal medicine residents should be improved.
  5. Training programs should adopt new models for utilizing faculty in fostering the education and professional development of trainees.
  6. Institutional and programmatic resources must be aligned with the goals and objectives of educational redesign to ensure the successful implementation of redesign efforts.

In June 2010, the second AAIM Education Redesign Task Force completed its work.  A report on the task force's efforts will be posted here.  The task force's work products include five papers to be published in the American Journal of Medicine in fall 2010 on the development and ongoing support of master teachers.  A sixth publication on comptency-based education and training in internal medicine will be published in 2011.

  • Read the first paper from the master teacher subcommittee.

 

 The Core of Internal Medicine: Core Competencies and Core Content

This document accompanies the article entitled, “Redesigning Residency Training in Internal Medicine: The Consensus Report of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Education Redesign Task Force,” which was published in the December 2007 edition of Academic Medicine.

 As stated in the article:

"The core of internal medicine defines the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that a resident must attain for advancement to independent practice, fellowship, or other internal medicine career pathways. In addition, all internists, including internal medicine subspecialists, should maintain proficiency in the core throughout their careers, regardless of their ultimate career pathway or scope of practice. The internal medicine core therefore provides a framework for building the structure and content of formal training, evaluation, certification, continuing medical education, and maintenance of certification."

Comments on the Core of Internal Medicine are welcome. Please email comments to policy@im.org.

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