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Can you tell the story of family medicine without Residency Program Solutions (RPS)? The two lead articles in this issue look back to the origins of the specialty of family medicine and the RPS consulting program on its 50th anniversary. This program, unique in the health care landscape, has substantially and positively impacted hundreds of family medicine programs and program directors, as well as the thousands of family physician graduates they have trained to date.
 
Cover photo of the University of New Mexico Family Practice Clinic, circa 1970, courtesy of the Center for the History of Family Medicine.

July-August 2026  Vol. 58 No. 7

EDITORIAL

On the Birth of US Family Medicine and the Residency Assistance Program

Valerie J. Gilchrist, MD | Robert Graham, MD | Norman B. Kahn Jr, MD | Daniel J. Ostergaard, MD | Kelly Heide, MLS

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Residency Program Solutions at 50: A History of Promoting Excellence in Family Medicine

Mary K. Nordling, MD | Steven Crane, MD, MA | Alan B. Douglass, MD | Hobart Lee, MD | Louis Sanner, MD, MSPH | Karen B. Mitchell, MD

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Milestone Attainment of Accelerated 3-Year MD Graduates Compared to Nonaccelerated Graduates in Family Medicine Residency

Allison Macerollo, MD | Sally A. Santen, MD, PhD | Yoon Soo Park, PhD | Sandra Yingling, PhD | Sean O. Hogan, PhD | Christina M. Vitto, MD | Judee Richardson, PhD, MA | Catherine L. Coe, MD

Integration of Patient Feedback in Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Study

Kirsten Stoesser, MD | Sonja Van Hala, MD | Joshua B. Hunt, PhD | Katherine T. Fortenberry, PhD | Bernadette Kiraly, MD

Early Intervention and Remediation in Family Medicine Residencies: Behavioral Science Faculty Ratings of the Integration of Consensus-Based Recommendations

Christopher M. Haymaker, PhD | Jessica Schilling, PhD, LP | Kathryn Fraser, PhD | Amy Romain, LMSW | Emilee Delbridge, PhD | Amber Cadick, PhD, HSPP | Melissa E. Arthur, PhD | Grace Pratt, PhD | Krithika Malhotra, PhD | Austin Brubaker, MS

BRIEF REPORTS

Piloting the Clinician Scholars Program: Structured Mentoring, Staff Support, and Dedicated Academic Time to Build Family Medicine Research Capacity

Melanie Steiner, PhD | Eliza Taylor, MPH | Bernadette Kiraly, MD | José E. Rodríguez, MD | Kolawole Okuyemi, MD, MPH | Joseph B. Stanford, MD, MSPH

NARRATIVE ESSAYS

Apprenticeship

Allen F. Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd

93 Minutes

Muhammad Reza Chaudhry, MD, MPH

What I Heard

Nimish Garg

To Liberate

Katherine Reeve, MD

Presence With Patients

Andrea Marie Javier, BS

I’ve Been Waiting for You

Kristin Reavis, MD, MBS

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Comment on “Redefining Value in Family Medicine Obstetrics: A Pathway to Sustainable Rural Maternity Care”

Robert W. Owens, PhD | Katherine T. Fortenberry, PhD | Kirsten Stoesser, MD | Emmanuel Adediran, PhD | Thomas Carlyle Whittaker, MD | Bernadette Kiraly, MD

FAMILY MEDICINE FOCUS

Teaching Effective Vaccine Recommendations

Lia Pierson Bruner, MD | Shivani Patel, MD, MPH | Laura Porterfield, MD, MPH

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN