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AAFP Residency Assessment Tool: Principles Grounding the Family Medicine Practice

Principles Grounding the Family Medicine Practice Assessment

Review the statements below and select the option that best reflects your residency program.

1. Access to the individual physician or team at the FMP is measured.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

2. Continuity of patient care at the FMP is measured.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

3. At the FMP benchmark measures of continuity with patients seeing their primary care team for 100% of routine appointments and, within that, seeing their primary physician for 70% of routine appointments.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

4. One hundred percent (100%) of residents at the FMP participate in at least one quality improvement project that is attempting to improve measured performance.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

5. FMP demonstrates partnership or team coverage of patients on a regular/daily basis.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

6. FMP surveys all its physicians and staff at least annually to evaluate the quality of the practice environment.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

7. All residents receive structured data and feedback at the FMP related to their personal practice performance on at least a quarterly basis.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

8. The FMP electronic health record (EHR) system is fully implemented with all elements described in the above chapter.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

9. Practices have a seamless process to evaluate patients discharged from the hospital within three to five days, and to track readmission rates.

5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective
5: Exemplary	4: Effective	3: Adequate	2: Needs improvement	1: Ineffective

10. Reflections/Comments (optional)

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