Development of Behavioral Health “Selective”: A Response to New ACGME Requirements
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Publication Date
2024
Keywords
oregon, oaa 2024, milwaukie
Disciplines
Behavioral Medicine | Medical Education
Abstract
Context or Background: Providence Oregon Family Medicine Residency has set out to create 5 individual elective tracks, called “selectives”, both in response to the ACGME’s increased requirement for elective time in AY 2024-2025 and as a way to provide intensive learning in highly relevant content areas for resident and early-career physicians. This poster presentation details the process of creating one of these elective tracks, the Behavioral Health selective. Goals and Objectives: • Share a structure to adapt a current curriculum to meet new ACGME requirements • Describe an approach to identify local community partners that could collaborate with their program to provide well rounded education to residents • Begin designing elective curricula that provide a robust experience for residents in relevant topics Methods: Senior residents, collaborating with faculty members, in-house multidisciplinary teams and community partners, have taken on the task of completing a needs assessment, establishing local partnerships and creating curricula that are both logistically sustainable for the program and educationally enriching for future residents without burdening them with the task of having to find 6 months of learning opportunities. Current research also points to the need for such learning. “In the context of policy and care delivery changes, equipping primary care providers to address mental health needs is crucial.” (1) Discussion/Conclusions/Next Steps: These curricula will be rolled out in AY 2024-2025 with further plans to assess their impact via pre and post selective surveys. Surveys will be disseminated electronically and will collect self report data on residents’ comfort treating patients with depression, anxiety, insomnia, PTSD, and SPMI. The post survey also elicits self report data on the relevance, practice-impact, and suggested improvements for the selective. References: 1. Physician Quality Information | Health Affairs. (n.d.). https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00375
Area of Special Interest
Mental Health
Specialty/Research Institute
Behavioral Health
Specialty/Research Institute
Graduate Medical Education
