National Family Medicine Graduate Survey (ABFM/AFMRD Graduate Survey)
ABOUT THE SURVEY
AFMRD has partnered with the ABFM to conduct a National Graduate Survey of all ABFM-certified physicians. In 2022, graduates who completed training in 2019 were asked to complete the survey. The survey was extended by one month into 2023 in an attempt to increase the response rate.
A report from your 2019 graduates, with national comparisons, is now available in the Resident Training Management System (RTM).
To access your reports, please log on to RTM (https://rtm.theabfm.org/) using your ABFM login and your password and make use of the feedback on your graduates it will provide.
Similar to last year, a Power BI based reporting tool is available in RTM. This interactive tool includes two reports that were available to you last year – 1) the 2022 program report and 2) a seven-year program specific report with all data from 2016 to 2022 collapsed together.
New for 2022, a report will be available with the ability to trend data from 2016 to 2022 with comparisons to national averages.
If you need help logging in to RTM, please contact help@theabfm.org.
Email templates to use to encourage 2020 graduates to complete the 2023 survey:
Email to send mid-July
Since you are a graduate of our residency, I’m writing to personally ask that you help me improve the quality of training we provide. I wrote you in January about the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) Graduate Survey and asked you to complete it to help me improve our residency education. If you have not completed it already, please take 10-12 minutes to do so. If you have completed it, thank you!
The data you, and other recent graduates, provide will help our program in multiple ways. First, it will help us understand what our graduates are doing in practice, how well we prepared you to practice, and allow us to compare these outcomes to other residencies in the country to see where we are doing well, and where we need to improve. Second, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to survey their graduates and your responses will help us meet this requirement.
The survey data are provided in aggregate to us in a report, but your individual responses remain blinded. The survey asks about satisfaction with training, preparation for practice, and scope of practice and should only take around 10-12 minutes to complete. In order to complete the survey any time this year, log on to your ABFM portfolio (https://www.theabfm.org/) and help me to continue to further improve the quality of education we provide.
Email to send mid-October
Since you are a graduate of our residency, I’m writing to personally ask that you help me improve the quality of training we provide. I wrote you in July about the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) Graduate Survey and asked you to complete it to help me improve our residency education. If you have not completed it already, please take 10-12 minutes to do so. If you have completed it, thank you!
The data you, and other recent graduates, provide will help our program in multiple ways. First, it will help us understand what our graduates are doing in practice, how well we prepared you to practice, and allow us to compare these outcomes to other residencies in the country to see where we are doing well, and where we need to improve. Second, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to survey their graduates and your responses will help us meet this requirement.
The survey data are provided in aggregate to us in a report, but your individual responses remain blinded. The survey asks about satisfaction with training, preparation for practice, and scope of practice and should only take around 10-12 minutes to complete. The survey should be completed by December 31. In order to complete the survey, log on to your ABFM portfolio (https://www.theabfm.org/) and help me to continue to further improve the quality of education we provide.
Email to send mid-November
Since you are a graduate of our residency, I’m writing to personally ask that you help me improve the quality of training we provide. I wrote you last month about the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) Graduate Survey and asked you to complete it to help me improve our residency education. If you have not completed it already, please take 10-12 minutes to do so. If you have completed it, thank you!
The data you, and other recent graduates, provide will help our program in multiple ways. First, it will help us understand what our graduates are doing in practice, how well we prepared you to practice, and allow us to compare these outcomes to other residencies in the country to see where we are doing well, and where we need to improve. Second, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to survey their graduates and your responses will help us meet this requirement.
The survey data are provided in aggregate to us in a report, but your individual responses remain blinded. The survey asks about satisfaction with training, preparation for practice, and scope of practice and should only take around 10-12 minutes to complete. The survey should be completed by December 31. In order to complete the survey, log on to your ABFM portfolio (https://www.theabfm.org/) and help me to continue to further improve the quality of education we provide.
Email to send mid-December
Since you are a graduate of our residency, I’m writing you one last time to personally ask that you help me improve the quality of training we provide. I’ve written you throughout the year about the American Board of Family Medicine’s (ABFM) Graduate Survey and asked you to complete it to help me improve our residency education. If you have not completed it already, please take 10-12 minutes to do so. If you have completed it, thank you!
The data you, and other recent graduates, provide will help our program in multiple ways. First, it will help us understand what our graduates are doing in practice, how well we prepared you to practice, and allow us to compare these outcomes to other residencies in the country to see where we are doing well, and where we need to improve. Second, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to survey their graduates and your responses will help us meet this requirement.
The survey data are provided in aggregate to us in a report, but your individual responses remain blinded. The survey asks about satisfaction with training, preparation for practice, and scope of practice and should only take around 10-12 minutes to complete. The survey should be completed by December 31. In order to complete the survey, log on to your ABFM portfolio (https://www.theabfm.org/) and help me to continue to further improve the quality of education we provide.
Email to send mid-January 2024 (will be for 2021 graduates)
Since you are a graduate of our residency, I’m writing to personally ask that you help me improve the quality of training we provide. In the past few days, you received an email from the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) asking you to complete a Graduate Survey. Please take 10-12 minutes to do so. The survey was jointly developed by the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) and the ABFM with input from other family medicine organizations and recent graduates.
The data you, and other recent graduates, provide will help our program in multiple ways. First, it will help us understand what our graduates are doing in practice, how well we prepared you to practice, and allow us to compare these outcomes to other residencies in the country to see where we are doing well, and where we need to improve. Second, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to survey their graduates and your responses will help us meet this requirement.
The survey data are provided in aggregate to us in a report, but your individual responses remain blinded. The survey asks about satisfaction with training, preparation for practice, and scope of practice and should only take around 10-12 minutes to complete. In order to complete the survey any time this year, log on to your ABFM portfolio (https://www.theabfm.org/) and help me to continue to further improve the quality of education we provide.