AMA Reimagining Residency Grant

We are excited to report that Partners HealthCare Graduate Medical Education has been named one of eight awardees of the AMA’s $15 million “Reimagining Residency” grant program. Recipients were chosen after a highly competitive two-stage application process, involving more than 300 Graduate Medical Education (GME) departments. Each successful project will receive nearly $1.9M over five years, beginning in August, 2019.

The Partners proposal, titled “Promotion in Place: Enhancing Trainee Well Being and Patient Care Through Time Variable Graduate Medical Education,” will integrate time-variable models for advancement of residents to an attending role and also provide more flexible access to training extension and remediation. Participation in the pilot will be voluntary at both the program and the individual resident levels. Ten residency programs indicated an interest in participating and will be involved in the more intensive planning process that is about to begin. Others will also have an opportunity to join.

The project’s first year will involve getting endorsement and any necessary exemptions from regulatory and oversight groups, including the relevant specialty boards and the ACGME, as well as IRB approval. Details related to assessment, scheduling, privileging, etc. will be mapped out, and participating programs will have an opportunity to “simulate” a “promotion in place” cycle prior to the anticipated launch in AY 2020-21. An expert advisory panel, recruited during the grant proposal development, will help to steer the project’s design and evaluation.

The AMA’s effort directed toward transforming residency training follows its earlier grant program focused on GME. Investigators involved in the newly funded projects will join the AMA’s “Accelerating Change in Medical Education” consortium, a community of educators and education researchers across the U.S. [For further information, contact Deb Weinstein or John Co.]

This page was updated on 07/11/19.