Value-based care curriculum for residents

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Help residents master value-based care with a free, video-based curriculum.

Why value-based care matters in residency training

Residency is a formative stage where physicians develop the skills and mindset that guide their careers. Incorporating value-based care into training equips residents to deliver care that is patient-centered, cost-conscious and aligned with today’s evolving payment models.

Using our free, pre-built curriculum, your program can meet ACGME population health and practice management milestones while giving residents a strong foundation to thrive in a shifting health care landscape.

Curriculum overview and structure

The value-based care residency curriculum is a video-based education package that was developed by the AAFP and family medicine residency program directors to make it possible for residency faculty to more easily:

  • Develop their residents' essential critical practice skills

  • Meet new ACGME requirements, e.g., around population health

  • Optimize care delivery within the program

The package features 12 on-demand 30- to 60-minute activities that include:

  • A core set of courses that will give residents a baseline understanding of what value-based care is, why it matters and how it works

  • Additional videos that dive deeper into learning

  • Downloadable handouts and tools

  • Samples of block and longitudinal teaching schedules

The targeted curriculum focuses on essential components of a larger library of value-based care CME, tools and information available to help you and others in family medicine achieve payment and care goals.

Access VBC course materials

Curriculum benefits

Until now, programs have been left on their own to craft value-based care curriculum, even though each organization has different resources and levels of adoption. With curriculum requirements putting programs at full capacity, it’s a challenge to get residents up to speed on all they need to know about health systems, population health and practice management.

However, health care delivery continues to move away from fee for service, and toward payment models that pay appropriately for the complexity of family medicine. Equipping residents to navigate the ins and outs of value-based care will make them confident leaders-to-be in their future practices.

Benefits for your program

Residency programs that adopt the curriculum can:

  • Learn how to engage in the next level of value-based care, no matter where your program is in its adoption.

  • Meet new ACGME population health requirements with a FREE pre-built video-based curriculum.

  • Gain knowledge to help you advocate within your organization and to support VBC implementation in your residency program.

  • Be positioned to take action to improve care delivery and patient outcomes.

  • Access recommended block and longitudinal schedules.

Benefits for your residents

Residents who engage with the curriculum gain:

  • Confidence to evaluate how potential employers implement value-based care during the job search.

  • Skills to clearly discuss value-based care in residency and job interviews.

  • A solid foundation to build a financially sustainable independent practice grounded in value-based care principles.

  • Readiness to thrive in diverse practice environments after training.

  • Greater ability to advocate for payment systems that recognize and support primary care.

Downloadable block and longitudinal teaching schedules

See flexible ways to use this curriculum, whether your residents are interested in a longitudinal or focused experiences.

Block schedule

Longitudinal schedule

How this curriculum meets ACGME requirements

See how the courses in this curriculum can help you meet 22 of the requirements outlined in the 2024 ACGME Family Medicine Residency Requirements.

Courses aligned with ACGME milestones

ACGME requirement topic

ACGME requirement detail

Courses

Ensuring resources

4.10.

The Role of Primary Care in Addressing Social Needs 

Advisory committee diversity

1.8.h.1.

  • Patient and Community Engagement to Improve Health Outcomes 

  • Engaging patients and communities

Performance improvement

1.8.k

Using Data to care of populations 

Whole person care approaches

4.4.a.1.a.

Value-Based Care: Patients, Populations and Whole Health 

Interprofessional behavioral health care

4.11.p.

Residency – Program Directors and Residents

Preventive care coordination and risk

4.4.a.5.

  • Risk Assessment- clinical and social 

  • The "in-between spaces" 

Preventive care for children

4.4.a.10.

  • Chronic conditions – moving from a management mindset to a prevention approach 

  • Proactive care 

Consulting multiple information sources

4.4.a.15

Improving adherence to prescribed medications 

Practice improvement analysis

4.7.d.

Change Management 

Skills for working effectively on a care team

4.8.c

Transformational Leadership 

Patient relationships and shared-decision making

4.8.h.

  • Value-Based Care: Patients, Populations and Whole Health 

  • It starts with “why” 

Care and end-of-life goals discussions

4.8.g. 

Closing Care Gaps through Respectful Engagement 

Payment and systems awareness in care

4.9.e.   

  • Value-Based Care: Patients, Populations and Whole Health 

  • From Tension to Teamwork 

Impact of finances on health decisions

4.9.f.

Primary Care Payment 101 

Panel size and education, access, continuity

4.11.c.5.b.

Empanelment 

Panel size adjustment

4.11.c.5.i.

  • Continuity

  • Empanelment 

Team-based care coverage

4.11.c.5.j. 

  • Continuity

  • Empanelment 

Care team leadership

4.11.d

  • Who’s on your team? Understanding job roles and expanding your impact 

  • Leading Effective Teams 

Care of older adults with multiple chronic conditions

4.11.l.1.

Caring for patients with complex needs 

Interprofessional behavioral health care

4.11.p

Behavioral Health Integration in Residency – Program Directors and Residents

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