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From Residency to Reality
Introduction
Produced by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in collaboration with TransforMED and the Center for Health Information Technology, From Residency to Reality is a practice management curriculum designed to assist family medicine residency programs in the instruction of practice management to their residents.
From Residency to Reality is intended to help residency programs teach management strategies including disciplined financial management, change management, cost/benefit decision making, care coordination, and physician-patient communication.
From Residency to Reality is intended to help residency programs teach management strategies including disciplined financial management, change management, cost/benefit decision making, care coordination, and physician-patient communication.
Goal
The goal of the curriculum is to teach residents the knowledge, skills, and approaches needed for successful practice management, and to help residents achieve long-term professional and personal success.
Target Audience
From Residency to Reality is designed for family medicine residency program directors, associate program directors, program faculty, and anyone who teaches the practice management course to residents. The product is useful for:
- Residents, who need to understand the basics of practice management;
- Faculty, who need credible resources and tools to teach practice management and seek new ways to teach residents;
- New-to-practice physicians, who need point-of-care resources to help them establish a practice; and
- Established physicians or practices in need of revising current methods and processes.
Content
With more than 100 hours of content, From Residency to Reality not only helps programs meet the RC-FM requirement, it discusses practice innovations including the patient-centered medical home, emphasizes family medicine practice competencies, including leadership, management and team-based care, and addresses issues facing new and practicing family physicians.
The latest version was redesigned in 2011 and includes modules on:
The latest version was redesigned in 2011 and includes modules on:
Table of Contents
- Business Operations
- Business Planning
- Change Management
- Clinical Risk Management
- Continuing Medical Education (CME)
- Contracts
- Financial Management
- Health Information Technology
- Medical Community Relationships
- Medical Records Chart Audit
- Office Roles and Understanding Staffing
- Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Practice Location
- Practice Type
- Privileges and Credentialing
- Professional Organizations
- Quality Measurement and Improvement
- Regulatory Issues
- Vendor Relationships
Format
Designed for PC and MAC users, the single CD-ROM is formatted in both PowerPoint and PDF and integrates with multiple teaching methods. Open files allow customization of materials to your program's specific needs.
Modules include:
Modules include:
- Interactive lectures
- Frequent discussion for learner involvement
- Several projects with a team challenge
- Web sites, articles, reading and references for further study and use
- Pre- and post-questionnaires
- Speaker notes
Up-To-Date Content
Practice management includes accreditation requirements, organization, finance, administration, communication, marketing, patient care, change management, and compliance with external regulatory agencies. As practices and the health care settings evolve, residents will experience a spectrum of change in any or all of these areas.
As our environment changes, regulations change, and more is learned, it will be necessary to update the information included in From Residency to Reality. Content experts will conduct a review and make revisions every two years.
As our environment changes, regulations change, and more is learned, it will be necessary to update the information included in From Residency to Reality. Content experts will conduct a review and make revisions every two years.
The Package
From Residency to Reality is pre-loaded on a single CD-ROM formatted for PC and MAC users. Modules are provided in PDF form, as well as in PowerPoint, making them modifiable by any speaker.
Initial Residency Program Copy
$350
Additional Copies* (identical to initial copy purchased)
$75 each**
* The interactive CD-ROM is typically made available by programs to each resident as a resource to be taken into private practice or group practice, or for use as a faculty member.
**Due to possible revisions, ordering for a maximum of two years is recommended.
Initial Residency Program Copy
$350
Additional Copies* (identical to initial copy purchased)
$75 each**
* The interactive CD-ROM is typically made available by programs to each resident as a resource to be taken into private practice or group practice, or for use as a faculty member.
**Due to possible revisions, ordering for a maximum of two years is recommended.
Try Before You Buy
Contact us to request a copy of two free sample modules on financial planning (supplies are limited).
Sponsored by AAFP Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the AAFP Foundation.
Sponsored by AAFP Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the AAFP Foundation.
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Order From Residency to Reality for your program by calling the AAFP Contact Center at (800) 274-2237.
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