Family medicine residency curriculum guidelines
Explore and review family medicine residency curriculum guidelines endorsed by the AAFP.
These guidelines are aligned with educational competencies as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Full list of guidelines
- Adolescent health
- Allergy and immunology
- Behavioral health and professional well-being
- Care of infants and children
- Care of older adults
- Care of the critically ill adult
- 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, queer/questioning, intersex and asexual 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
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