In 2019, the ACGME Board of Directors approved an accreditation framework for medically underserved areas and populations (MUA/P). The framework goal is to expand GME into rural and underserved areas and ultimately enhance access to and availability of healthcare in MUA/Ps, consistent with the ACGME’s mission to improve health care and population health. In this session, the ACGME’s Director of MUA/P and GME and SVP of Osteopathic Accreditation will provide an overview of this framework and introduce early MUA/P initiatives, including the ACGME Rural Track Program designation.

Learning Objectives

1. Upon completion, participants will be able to discuss factors contributing to the development of a new accreditation framework.
2. Upon completion, participants will be able to explain the sections of the ACGME’s accreditation framework for medically underserved areas and populations.
3. Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the ACGME Rural Track Program designation processes.

Presenters
Lorenzo Pence, DO (he/him/his)
Laney McDougal, MS-HSM (she/her/hers)

No Disclosure
In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ACOFP requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company. ACOFP reviews the disclosed relationship and mitigates all relevant financial relationships to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all their educational programs.

All individuals in control of the content of this activity have no relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 0.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report continuing medical education (CME) credits commensurate with the physician’s participation in this program.

The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this enduring activity for 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclaimer
This program is provided by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Participants engaging in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

Questions
To submit questions to the presenter(s) please send them to elearning@acofp.org and include the conference and course title so we can direct them correctly.

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