Family Medicine Residency Learning Networks
A family medicine residency learning network comprises multiple family medicine residency programs working together to accomplish mutually agreed upon objectives and obtain or create new knowledge. This page includes resources to help learning network leaders create or improve their networks.
A family medicine residency learning network comprises multiple family medicine residency programs working together to accomplish mutually agreed upon objectives and obtain or create new knowledge. Some networks are time-limited—they are formed implement a specific project— and others are enduring.STFM’s Residency Learning Network initiative was supported by a grant from the ABFM Foundation.
Resources Available From STFM
Guide to Creating a Family Medicine Residency Learning Network
Use this guide from STFM to define your learning network's purpose, create a government infrastructure, identify network participants, set goals and objectives, secure funding, and plan network meetings.
Family Medicine Residency Learning Networks Speakers' Bureau
Need some outside expertise for the next meeting of your family medicine residency learning network? Here is a list of subject matter experts you can contact based on your learning network's needs.
Family Medicine Residency Learning Networks Planning Workbook
A family medicine residency learning network comprises multiple family medicine residency programs working together to accomplish mutual objectives and obtain or create new knowledge. This workbook will help learning network leaders identify and document foundational plans for residency learning networks.
Directory of Family Medicine Learning Networks
Find a directory of family medicine learning networks. Use the Google Doc file to identify networks or update the list with new learning networks.
Aggregated Resources
Miscellaneous Resources
- Cincinnati Children's Information about Learning Health Networks: Includes modules on Systems of Leadership, Governance and Management, Financial Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Engagement and Community Building, and Data and Analytics
- Accelerating Care Transformation Toolkit for Hosting a Learning Collaborative
Papers on Residency Learning Networks
- The Value of Learning Collaboratives: Experiences From Several Residency Networks (Ormsby et al)
- Residency Learning Networks: Why and How (Newton)
- Working Together: Communities of Practice in Family Medicine (Endsley et al)
- An Assessment of Family Medicine Residency Networks in the United States (White et al)
- Transforming Primary Care Practice and Education -- Lessons from 6 Academic Learning Collaboratives (Koch et al)
- Learning Collaboratives: Insights And A New Taxonomy From AHRQ’s Two Decades Of Experience (Nix et al)
- The Breakthrough Series: IHI’s Collaborative Model for Achieving Breakthrough Improvement
Papers Specific to the I3 Collaborative
- Tackling the Triple Aim in Primary Care Residencies: The I3 POP Collaborative (Donahue, et al)
- Continuity and Access in an Academic Family Medicine Center (Weir et al)
- Practice Transformation in Teaching Settings: Lessons From the I3 PCMH Collaborative (Reid et al)
- Improving Chronic Illness Care in Teaching Practices: Learnings From the I3 Collaborative (Newton et al)
- Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice: What We’ve Learned and Where We Need to Go (Newton and Baxley)
- What’s the Right Referral Rate? Specialty Referral Patterns and Curricula Across I3 Collaborative Primary Care Residencies (Gwynne et al)
Graduates of STFM Residency Learning Network Leadership Training
2024 Graduates
The following successfully completed the 2024 Leadership Training for Residency Learning Networks:
- Angela Cherry, MD, MBA, West Virginia University Rural Family Medicine Residency
- Barbara Miller, MD, KCU-GMEC/Freeman Program
- Chelsea Kolodziej, DO, Marion General Health Family Medicine Residency
- Emilio Russo, MD, LSU Rural Family Medicine Bogalusa
- James Chris Rule, LCSW, Baptist Health - UAMS Family Medicine Residency
- Jason Lanham, MD, MA, Medical College of GA at Augusta Univ
- Jennifer Svarverud, DO, University of Wisconsin Madison
- Kathleen Young, PhD, Novant Health New Hanover Family Medicine Residency
- Kathy Pabst, MBA, Missouri Academy of Family Physicians
- Kelvin Wynn, MD, UICOMP Family Medicine Residency at Carle Health Methodist
- Lauren Anderson, PhD, Rush-Esperanza Family Medicine Residency
- Lauren Gibson-Oliver, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock
- Meggan Robinson, DO, Ascension Genesys Family Medicine Residency
- Melissa Stephens MD, MS, East Central Mississippi Health Network Inc.
- Michelle Keating, DO, Wake Forest University School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
- Roger Garvin, MD, Oregon Health and Science University.
- Soumya Sridhar, MBBS, MSc, University of Rochester-Highland Family Medicine Residency Program
- Tana Chongsuwat, MD, McGaw Northwestern University
- Victor Pulido, DO, Marian Regional Medical Center
- William Bowen, MD, Medicos de El Centro
- Zaiba Jetpuri, DO, UT Southwestern Family & Community Medicine
2023 Graduates
The following successfully completed the 2023 Leadership Training for Residency Learning Networks:
- Tanya Anim, MD, Mercy Health Janesville
- Jamila Benn, MD, Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency Program
- Karl Clebak, MD, MHA, Penn State Health- Milton S. Hershey Medical Center- Hershey
- Nikola Conrad MD, Indiana University School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency at Memorial Hospital in Jasper
- Y Monique Davis-Smith, MD, Atrium Health Navicent
- Andrew Gaillardetz, MD, SLU Southwest Illinois Family Medicine Residency Program
- Richard Guthmann, MD, Advocate Illinois Masonic Family Medicine Residency
- Drew Keister, MD, Lehigh Valley Health Network
- Robert Langan, MD, St. Luke's Family Medicine Residency/Sacred Heart Campus
- Donna Kaminski, DO, MPH, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Somerset Family Practice Family Medicine Residency Program
- Alex Kipp, MD, UC Irvine Family Medicine
- Zach Merten, MD, UMN Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
- Michael Partin, MD, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Family and Community Medicine Residency
- Patty Pinanong, MD, Keck USC Family Medicine
- Molly Polverento, MSEd, CPH, Michigan State University Department of Family Medicine Residency Network
- David Lee Rebedew, MD, Mercy Health Janesville
- Morgan Rhodes, PharmD, Prisma Health/USC Family Medicine Residency (Columbia)
- Doug Rose, MD, MBA, Hawaii Island Family Medicine Residency
- Tiffani Thomas, MD, Aiken Regional Medical Center
- Kelly Ussery-Kronhaus, MD, Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center
- Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH, Alaska Family Medicine Residency
STFM Family Medicine Learning Networks Team
- Corey Lyon, DO, Program Director, University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency Program
- Mary Theobald, MBA, Chief of Strategy and Innovation, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Questions?
If you have questions about Family Medicine Residency Learning Networks or the resources in this section, contact Mary Theobald at the email link below.
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