To provide an appropriate sponsor mix for the nation's family medicine residencies.

Strategic Directions:

2.1 Encourage the development of family medicine residency programs which:

1. Respond to the needs of the public, including the underserved, on a local, regional, and national level.
   
   
2. Are responsive to national and regional workforce plans, where such exist.
   
   
3. Are oriented to the local community, regardless of sponsorship.
   Prioritize education over service.
   
   
4. Facilitate the attainment of academic needs of residents and faculty.
   
   
5. Prepare residents for practice in a variety of practice settings, including managed care, HMO, community health center care.
   
   
6. Takes advantage of the unique perspectives and resources of both university and community training sites where such affiliations exist.

2.3 Promote broader funding of family medicine residency programs:

1. Encourage the distribution of funding for residencies from an "all-payor pool", and
2. Advocate that funding of residencies go directly to the legal entity which is responsible for the residency program, and is used in support of the residency program, with the program director's knowledge.
   
   Who:
   Washington Offices of the Organizations of Academic Family Medicine (OAFM) and the AAFP.
   
   Strategy:
   • Per GME $ reform.
   • AFMO GME policies.
3. Promote independently funded residencies.
   
   Who:
   AFPRD, RAP, AAFP.
   
   Strategy:
   • RAP/PD Workshops.
   • RAP consultations.
   • GME $ reform.

2.4 Foster increased participation in and commitment to residency education by "consumers" (i.e., HMOs, group practices, AHECs, CHC's, etc.) of family medicine residency graduates, including financial, clinical and faculty resources.

Who:
AFPRD, RAP, AAFP.

Strategy:
Consultations, invited workshops at national meetings of other groups.