From Medical Student to Physician: Helping Our Learners Make the UME-GME Transition Using Individualized Learning Plans
The AAIM Learner Handoffs Standards Task Force (LHS-TF) was charged to incorporate views of diverse internal medicine stakeholders to address recommendations by the Coalition for Physician Accountability. To improve the UME to GME transition, the LHS-TF developed an internal medicine-specific individualized learning plan (ILP) to help facilitate communications about learner needs at the start of residency. This ILP was developed through an iterative process and includes questions related to learner goals for internship; perceived skills and knowledge preparedness; and identification of areas for improvement. Learners would complete this ILP with guidance from medical school mentors after the Match and then share the form with their new medicine residency programs prior to the start of their intern orientations.
In this interactive workshop, task force members will share the preliminary results from a 2022 pilot that included 57 medicine residency programs that sent ILP forms to approximately 1,280 incoming new interns. This workshop will share early best practices in using the ILPs to help learners have active conversations about their own personal learning needs and goals; and to help programs create more targeted curricula and learning opportunities. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to troubleshoot potential barriers and brainstorm possible benefits to using ILPs in their own educational settings. The workshop is intended for faculty and administrators for both UME (who help graduating students complete these ILPs) and GME (who receive and review these ILPs) medicine programs.
In this interactive workshop, task force members will share the preliminary results from a 2022 pilot that included 57 medicine residency programs that sent ILP forms to approximately 1,280 incoming new interns. This workshop will share early best practices in using the ILPs to help learners have active conversations about their own personal learning needs and goals; and to help programs create more targeted curricula and learning opportunities. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups to troubleshoot potential barriers and brainstorm possible benefits to using ILPs in their own educational settings. The workshop is intended for faculty and administrators for both UME (who help graduating students complete these ILPs) and GME (who receive and review these ILPs) medicine programs.