Family medicine residency curriculum guidelines

Review residency program curriculum recommendations endorsed by the AAFP and aligned with educational competencies as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

• Cardiovascular medicine

• Care of the surgical patient
  
  
• Chronic pain management
  
  
• Conditions of the eye
  
  
• Conditions of the nervous system
  
  
• Conditions of the skin
  
  
• Disaster medicine
  
  
• Global health
  
  
• Health promotion and disease prevention
  
  
• Health systems management
  
  
• HIV infection/AIDS
  
  
• Integrative medicine
  
  
• Leadership
  
  
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender health

• Medical ethics
  
  
• Medical genetics
  
  
• Medical informatics
  
  
• Men's health
  
  
• Musculoskeletal and sports medicine
  
  
• Nutrition
  
  
• Occupational medicine
  
  
• Office laboratory medicine
  
  
• Palliative and end-of-life care
  
  
• Patient education
  
  
• Patient safety
  
  
• Physician leadership in team-based primary care
  
  
• Physician well-being
  
  
• Point-of-care ultrasound
  
  
• Practice based learning and improvement
  
  
• Practice in metropolitan, low-resourced areas
  
  
• Pregnancy-related care
  
  
• Residents as teachers and precepting in postgraduate practice
  
  
• Rheumatic conditions
  
  
• Risk management and medical liability
  
  
• Scholarly activity and information mastery
  
  
• Substance use disorders
  
  
• Trauma-informed care
  
  
• Urgent and emergent care
  
  
• Women’s health and gynecologic care
  
  
• Wound care