Curriculum for Teaching Value-based Care to Residents 

About Value-based Care for Residents

The value-based care residency curriculum is a video-based education package that was developed by the AAFP and family medicine residency program directors to make it possible for residency faculty to more easily:

• develop their residents' essential critical practice skills,

• meet new ACGME requirements, e.g., around population health and

• optimize care delivery within the program.

The package features 12 on-demand 30 to 60 minutes activities that include:

• a core set of courses that will give residents a baseline understanding of what value-based care is, why it matters, and how it works

• additional videos that dive deeper into learning

• downloadable handouts and tools

• samples of block and longitudinal teaching schedules

The targeted curriculum focuses on essential components of a larger library of value-based care CME, tools and information that are available to help you and others in family medicine achieve payment and care goals.

Curriculum Benefits

Until now, programs have been left on their own to craft value-based care curriculum, even though each organization has different resources and levels of adoption. With curriculum requirements putting programs at full capacity, it’s a challenge to get residents up to speed on all they need to know about health systems, population health and practice management.

However, health care delivery continues to move away from fee for service, and toward payment models that pay appropriately for the complexity of family medicine. Equipping residents to navigate the ins and outs of value-based care will make them confident leaders-to-be in their future practices.

Benefits for your program

• Meet new ACGME population health requirements with a FREE pre-built video-based curriculum

• Gain knowledge to help you advocate within your organization and to support VBC implementation in your residency program

• Learn how to engage in the next level of value-based care, no matter where your program is in its adoption

• Be positioned to take action to improve care delivery and patient outcomes

• Access to recommended block and longitudinal schedules

Benefits for your residents

• Feel prepared in their employment search to assess the level of VBC implementation of potential future employers.

• Be equipped to discuss VBC in interviews with practices.

• For resident who enter independent practice, have a foundation to establish a financially successful practice in VBC

• Succeed in practice environments post-training

• Stronger ability to advocate for payment systems that emphasize the importance of primary care

Block and Longitudinal Schedules

See flexible ways to use this curriculum, whether your residents are interested in a longitudinal or focused experiences.

How this Curriculum Meets ACGME Requirements

See how the courses in this curriculum can help you meet 22 of the requirements outlined in the 2024 ACGME Family Medicine Residency Requirements.