Table 2.

Examples of Assessments for the 2024 Family Medicine Outcomes

Core OutcomeExample Assessments
Practice as personal physicians, providing first contact, comprehensive and continuity care, to include excellent doctor-patient relationships, excellent care of chronic disease, routine preventive care and effective practice management.
  • Feedback to residents on quality of care or preventive care

  • Efficiency of patient care assessments such as timeliness of seeing patients, completion of charting, and coding.

  • Preceptor and behavioral health faculty assessments of effectiveness of doctor-patient relationship

  • End of clinic shift cards

  • Clinic Field Notes

Diagnose and manage acute illness and injury for people of all ages in the emergency room or hospital.
  • End of inpatient hospital rotation evaluation that includes:

  • Efficiency and thoroughness of initial assessment and floor management

  • Managing discharges and other transitions of care

  • Effective collaboration with teammates, nurses and other professionals

  • Trustworthiness with team members and consultants

  • Use of multi-source feedback of all members of hospital teams

Provide comprehensive care of children, including diagnosis and management of the acutely ill child and routine preventive care.
  • Existing rotational assessments of pediatric inpatient, emergency department, and outpatient rotations that include:

  • Recognition and management of emergencies

  • Key procedures and communication with patients, families and other professional on the team

  • Precepting assessments in continuity clinic

Develop effective communication and constructive relationships with patients, clinical teams, and consultants.
  • Likely included in all rotational assessments

  • Ideally develop way for CCC to monitor across rotations and settings so can request additional assessments as necessary.

  • Assessments from special curricula in behavioral health

Model Professionalism and be trustworthy for patients, peers, and communities
  • Routine rotation assessments and reviews by faculty advisors or coaches should include a component of professionalism.

  • Recommend asking specifically about trustworthiness from peers, faculty and rotation leads in all rotation evaluations