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Competency-Based Medical Education Toolkit for Residency Programs

In-Person CBME Faculty Development Opportunities

Faculty Development Delivered CBME Workshops:

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Upcoming Conference Presentations

2025 AAFP Residency Leadership Summit 

  • You Want Me to Do What? Tips to Survive Attesting to Core Outcomes
  • Integrating Direct Observation and Workplace Based Assessment into the Workflow    
  • Coaching to Competence: Transforming Residency Faculty Into Effective Resident Coaches
  • Reducing Bias in Evaluations by Improving Competency Based Resident Assessment Using Direct Observation 
  • Resident-Driven Individualized Learning Plans
  • The Family Medicine Residency Outcomes Project: Findings and How They Apply to Your Residency 
  • Leveraging Program Strengths and Competency Based Medical Education to Implement a Four-Year Pathway in Family Medicine

2025 STFM Annual Spring Conference 

  • CBME Intensive: Create Your Program’s Personalized CBME Implementation Roadmap with the STFM CBME Task Force
  • Reflections on Implementing CBME From STFM CBME Pilot Program Participants
  • Portfolios to Engage Residents in Learning: PERLs for Implementation in your Program
  • Leveraging a Needs Assessment to Develop a Learning Network for Family Medicine Residency Programs
  • Faculty Development Supporting CBME
  • Tips, Tricks, and Creative Ways to Integrate Direct Observation for Communication and Behavioral Health Skills
  • Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) in Musculoskeletal Medicine for Family Medicine Residents
  • Knowing Where to Start: Competency-Based Holistic Assessment of Incoming PGY1 Residents
  • Direct Observation for CBME: Strategies for Implementation and Growth
  • Grading Procedural Competency: Applying POCUS Evaluation to Broader Skill Assessment in Competency-Based Medical Education
  • Tools to Implement Entrustment Scales to Enhance Competency-Based Medical Education
  • Enhancing Family Medicine Resident Competence Through Continuous Performance Mapping (NFS)
  • Implementing Competency-Based Medical Education in a Community-Based Family Medicine Residency
  • POCUS and CBME Crossroads: A Review of Current POCUS Assessments in Multiple Residency Programs
  • Artificial Intelligence Integrated into Competency-Based Medical Education
  • Competency Unlocked: Moving From Requirement to Implementation of CBME

Completed Conference Presentations

2024 MSU Family Medicine Network Retreat

  • Competency-Based Medical Education—Why (and Why Now)?

2024 Colorado Association of Family Medicine Residencies Annual Program Directors' Retreat

  • Making CBME Hum in Your Program: What Every Program Director Needs to Know for Success

2024 UNC-Chapel Hill Academy of Educators 

  • Getting from Here to There: A Primer on Competency-Based Medical Education

2024 AAFP Residency Leadership Summit

  • CBME Made Easy
  • CBME 101: A Primer on Competency-Based Medical Education
  • Capturing the Moment: Using a Hand-held App for Direct Observation
  • More Than Just Remediation: Using the Individualized Learning Plan to Foster Resident Success
  • Tying It Together — Using Milestone Elements to Build Better Competency Assessment
  • "GROW" Where You're Planted: Utilizing the GROW Model to Develop Resident Individualized Learning Plans
  • Charting a New Course: Harnessing Resident Engagement to Create Competency-Based Electives and Evaluations
  • Developing Faculty in the Principles of Master Adaptive Learning Using Case-Based Techniques
  • Coaching With the End in Mind: Faculty Skills in Co-development of Individualized Learning Plans
  • Begin With the End in Mind — A Shared Mental Model for Implementing Direct Observation
  • The Cost for Excellence: Financial Models for Programs of Excellence to Embrace CBME & NEW ABFM Outcomes
  • Connecting ILPs and the CCC: Innovative Resident Assessment

2024 STFM Annual Spring Conference

  • Primer on Competency-Based Medical Education for Family Medicine Faculty
  • What’s in Your Program’s CBME Toolkit?: Discover Resources and Create an Implementation Plan with the STFM CBME Task Force
  • Implementing CBME: How to Integrate Direct Observation Into the Clinical Workflow
  • The Resident Portfolio: An Interactive Tool For Resident Assessment
  • Monthly Competency-Based OB Mx Group Simulation Training for FM Residents
  • CBME in Family Medicine: How to Assure Residency Graduates Have Met the ABFM Core Outcomes
  • Monthly Competency-Based CODE BLUE Group Simulation Training for FM Residents
  • Are You Ready to Fly? Teaching and Assessment of Procedure Competency
  • Nurturing GROWth Mindsets: The Role of Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs)
  • Competency-Based Resident Orientation Simulation Activities for the Development of Equitable and Actionable Learning Plans
  • Listening to Our Residents: Early Findings From the First ABFM Family Medicine Resident Survey
  • Meaningful Feedback Conversations
  • "Every Move You Make, I'll Be Watching You": How to Utilize Direct Observation in Residency Education
  • Let’s Table It: Competency-Based Assessment Tools for Rotation Specific Feedback

2024 AAFP National Conference of Residents and Students 

  • Demonstrating Competence in Residency: New Expectations for Residents

2024 North Caroline Family Medicine Academic Summit 

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Events

January 30–February 2, 2025: STFM Conference on Medical Student Education

February 11, 2025, 11:30 am CST: Webinar: Planning for the Future: Personal Finance Education with Equitable’s Stephen Dunbar

February 28, 2025, 11 am CST: Webinar: Addressing the Residency Continuity Requirement: A Panel Discussion to Share Successes and Barriers

May 3–7, 2025: STFM Annual Spring Conference

September 8–10, 2025: The 2025 STFM Conference on Practice & Quality Improvement

Due Dates

February 4, 2025: Deadline for Presentation Proposals for 2025 Conference on Practice and Quality Improvement

February 17, 2025: Submissions for the 2025 Poetry and Prose Contest Due

February 28, 2025: Family Medicine Advocacy Summit Scholarship Applications Due

March 4, 2025: Medical Student Educators Development Institute (MSEDI) Applications Due

April 1, 2025: Early Bird Deadline for STFM Annual Spring Conference Registration

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