Gain knowledge and skills to lead a residency learning network.
Training will include:
- A preconference workshop on September 14, 2024 at the Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement in Denver, CO.
- Attendance at the 2024 Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement, with attendance required at specific sessions that will contribute to effective leadership of learning collaboratives. The conference is September 15-17.
Topics include:
- Learning collaborative models and definitions
- Effective leadership
- Change management
- Defining and measuring outcomes
- Facilitation: recruitment, creating agendas, role assignments, collaborative communication, documenting findings, etc.
- Accessing resources
- Securing funding
Those participating in the Residency Learning Networks Leadership Training will receive a certificate of completion and be acknowledged on the STFM website.
Faculty, program directors and/or associate/assistant program directors who have an interest in leading Residency Learning Networks can apply. Up to 20 applicants will be selected.
Participants are expected to attend a full-day preconference workshop on September 14, 2024, as well as designated sessions at the Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement. The conference is September 15-17 in Denver, CO.
Participants are expected to evaluate the training they’ve received and also complete a survey in 2025 about how they have used what they learned.
Participants will gain knowledge and skills to lead learning networks. Participation in learning networks is strongly encouraged in the ACGME Family Medicine Program Requirements.
There is no fee to participate in this training. STFM will reimburse for conference registration, travel, food, and lodging for participants to attend the preconference workshop and the Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement.
Individuals who complete the training will receive a certificate of completion and be recognized on the STFM website
This project is supported by a grant from the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation.
The following successfully completed the 2023 Leadership Training for Residency Learning Networks:
- Tanya Anim, MD, Mercy Health Janesville
- Jamila Benn, MD, Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program
- Karl Clebak, MD, MHA, Penn State Health- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center- Hershey
- Nikola Conrad MD, Indiana University School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency at Memorial Hospital in Jasper
- Y Monique Davis-Smith, MD, Atrium Health Navicent
- Andrew Gaillardetz, MD, SLU Southwest Illinois Family Medicine Residency Program
- Richard Guthmann, MD, Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency
- Drew Keister, MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network
- Robert Langan, MD, St. Luke's Family Medicine Residency/Sacred Heart Campus
- Donna Kaminski, DO, MPH, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Somerset Family Practice Family Medicine Residency Program
- Alex Kipp, MD, UC Irvine Family Medicine
- Zach Merten, MD, UMN Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
- Michael Partin, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Family and Community Medicine Residency
- Patty Pinanong, MD, Keck USC Family Medicine
- Molly Polverento, MSEd, CPH, Michigan State University Department of Family Medicine Residency Network
- David Lee Rebedew, MD, Mercy Health Janesville
- Morgan Rhodes, PharmD, Prisma Health/USC Family Medicine Residency (Columbia)
- Doug Rose, MD, MBA, Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency
- Tiffani Thomas, MD, Aiken Regional Medical Center
- Kelly Ussery-Kronhaus, MD, Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center
- Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH, Alaska Family Medicine Residency