Improving the Health System
Understanding Geographic Differences in Medicare Spending (PDF)—September 2009
Rep. Schwartz
Introduces Legislation to Establish AAMC-Proposed Health Care
Innovation Zones—July 10, 2009
The proposal would create test zones with select academic
medical centers and community partners and experiment with
alternative payment structures and new models of cost-effective,
quality health care.
Health Care Innovation Zone Program
Act of 2009 (PDF)—July 2009
Kirch
and Miller: How Academic Medicine Can Help—The
Washington Post Second Opinions, September 22, 2009
To
Teach—Emory Health, Op-Ed by Darrell Kirch,
July 2009
A
Personal, Coordinated Approach to Care—New York Times, June 22, 2009
Teaching Hospitals
Battle Hospital-acquired Infections—AAMC
Reporter, Nov. 2007
Hospitals
Save Young Lives with Targeted Initiatives—AAMC
Reporter, Sept. 2007
Through the
Looking Glass: Montefiore Integrates Care in the Bronx—AAMC
Reporter, Aug. 2007
Hospitals
Improve Quality Through Language Services—AAMC
Reporter, July 2007
Smooth
Transition Means Quicker, Better Care—AAMC Reporter,
June 2007
Hand
Washing Takes Center Stage—AAMC Reporter, Feb.
2007
Demo
shows IT critical to improving care of patients with chronic
diseases—Healthcare IT News, Aug. 2009
Learn more about teaching
hospitals
Learn more about health care
reform
Training Physicians for the Future
Med
School, High Tech—Inside Higher Ed, July 2009
New
Medical Schools Pair Students With Patients from the Start—The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2009
AAMC
Efforts to Improve Medical Education (PDF)
Residency Training Focuses on Improving
Chronic Care (PDF)—AAMC Reporter, March 2008
Programs Give Residents Ample Outpatient
Opportunities (PDF)—AAMC Reporter, April 2008
A Community Approach to Resident Training and Patient Care(PDF)—AAMC Reporter, May 2008
Residencies Revolve Around Rural
Care (PDF)—AAMC Reporter, July 2008
In Redesigned Programs, Residents Prioritize
Patients' Needs (PDF)—AAMC Reporter, Sept. 2008, PDF
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Addressing the Physician and Primary Care Shortage
AAMC-Backed
Bill to Improve Access, Reduce Physician Shortage Introduced
in Congress—May 5, 2009
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction
Act Press Briefing (podcast, 24 mins.)
Resident Physician Shortage
Reduction Act of 2009 (PDF)—July 2009
The Physician Shortage
and Health Care Reform (PDF)—July 2009
Why is There a Shortage of Primary
Care Doctors? (PDF)—July 2009
Primary
Care Doctors—The Diane Rehm Show, NPR/WAMU, July 1, 2009
Learn more about the physician workforce shortage
Finding Tomorrow's Cures
Research Means
Hope
Learn more about the importance of NIH-funded medical
research.
Fulfilling the Promise
The teamwork between the NIH and America's medical schools
and major teaching hospitals serves as the nation's driving
force in the search for cures, new treatments, and better
ways to improve health and save lives.
Discoveries
and Innovations in Patient Care and Research
A database of medical firsts at AAMC-member medical schools
and teaching hospitals
Increasing Diversity in Medicine and Reducing Health Care
Disparities
AspiringDocs.org
This campaign and Web site raises awareness about the need
for more diversity in medicine and encourages African American,
Latino, and Native American students to apply to and enroll
in medical school.
Summer Medical and Dental
Education Program (SMDEP)
This free summer academic enrichment program is for freshman
and sophomore college students who are interested in a career
in medicine or dentistry.
Holistic
Review Project
The AAMC Holistic Review Project is designed to develop tools,
information, and resources that medical schools can use to
create and sustain medical student diversity.
The
Case For Diversity in the Health Care Workforce—Health Affairs, Sept. 2002
Serving the Community
Spencer
Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service
An award recognizing exceptional teaching hospitals and medical
schools that go the extra mile to meet their communities'
needs.
AAMC
Caring for the Community Grant Program
In
Rough Times, Student Clinics Do Their Part—AAMC Reporter, July 2009
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See the ad in Roll Call (PDF)
Academic Medicine:
Where Patients Turn for Hope
(Brochure, 2009)
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