Resources
AspiringDocs.org
AspiringDocs.org is an ongoing campaign to encourage more
African American, Latino, and Native American undergraduate
students to pursue careers in medicine. The campaign
consists of a Web site to provide inspiration for future appliccants
as well as a centralized source of reliable information, an
advertising component, and outreach to students and stakeholders.
Diversity
in Medical Education: Facts and Figures 2008
Diversity in Medical Education provides
students, medical educators, administrators, researchers,
policy makers, and the general public with a compendium of
detailed statistical information on race, ethnicity, and gender
in medical education in the United States for the 2007 academic
year. This publication also includes data related to the pre-college
component of the education pipeline leading to the M.D. degree
and other health sciences and health professions careers.
The Diversity Research Forum: Exploring Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
To examine the current state of research on diversity
in the physician workforce and identify the challenges of
conducting such research, the AAMC's Division of Diversity
Policy and Programs (DDPP) convened a panel of researchers
and funders to present findings on the impact of diversity
in medicine and to discuss the implications of public policy
on the ability of these efforts to both proceed and create
change. This forum led to a publication
in 2007.
Medical School Tuition and Young Physician Indebtedness
This report
was requested by the association's Executive Council in response
to concerns in the medical education community about rapidly
rising tuition levels and high and increasing indebtedness
of medical graduates. The report provides a two-decade perspective
on rising tuition and student debt and examines availability
of loans, the value of a medical education as an investment
in human capital, and the ability of young physicians to service
the substantial debts.
Medical Students with Disabilities: A Generation of Practice
This publication
provides a general sense of how to work through the challenging
application of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
and the ADA in the context of medical education. Written in
2005 by staff at the University of Colorado. Edited by Daniel
Wilkerson.
Minority Student Opportunities in U.S. Medical Schools
(MSOUSMS)
This biennial publication
is designed to assist pre-medical students, pre-medical advisors,
and others interested in planning and counseling students
for medical careers by detailing the recruitment programs
and support services at each medical school. The publication
also assists medical school faculty, administrators, student
organizations, and others interested in program development
by providing information about other schools' programs.
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Services
Medical Career Fairs Calendar
The career
fairs calendar allows students to review and plan attendance
for upcoming fairs, while helping to decrease date overlap
for future career fairs.
FIRST for Medical Education
Created in collaboration with the medical school financial
aid community and the Organization of Student Representatives
(OSR), FIRST
is designed to help applicants, students, residents, and members
of the academic medicine community navigate the complexities
of student debt.
The Medical Minority Applicant Registry (Med-MAR)
Med-MAR
was created to enhance admission opportunities for groups
currently underrepresented in medicine. Students applying
to medical school who self-identify that they are from groups
underrepresented in medicine or who are economically disadvantaged
and have taken the most recent MCAT can register for the Med-MAR.
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP)
SMDEP is a free, six-week summer academic
enrichment program for freshman and sophomore college students
who are interested in a career in medicine or dentistry. SMDEP
is implemented at 12 sites across the nation, and all programs
provide a basic science curriculum, career development activities,
clinical exposure, and a financial planning workshop.
Works in Progress and Ongoing Initiatives
GSA-Committee on Admissions
The GSA Committee
on Admissions advises the GSA Steering Committee and may
comment on, and make recommendations about, planned and ongoing
AAMC projects, programs, or services related to medical school
application and admission.
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 Holistic Review Advisory Committee
has set up a pilot project and an evaluation subcommittee
for its 2008–2010 project involving two medical schools.
Its first publication, Roadmap
to Diversity: Key Legal and Educational Policy Foundations
for Medical Schools was released in March 2008. Two
additional planned publications in the Roadmap series
during 2009 are: "Admissions Policies and Procedure"
and "Outreach, Recruitment, Financial Aid and Retention."
MR5: 5th Comprehensive Review of the MCAT (PDF)
The AAMC has begun a multi-year review
of the MCAT exam that will consider the knowledge, skills,
and other characteristics that admissions committees look
for in their applicants, the full range of information that
already is available in student selection, and state-of-the-art
and professional standards in admissions testing. The advisory
committee will provide AAMC with recommendations for the future
exam.
Contact: mr5@aamc.org
Medical School Objectives
Project (MSOP)
The AAMC has over the past decade released 10 Medical School
Objectives Project (MSOP) reports. The MSOP is an AAMC initiative
designed to reach general consensus within the medical education
community on the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that graduating
medical students should possess. An MSOP on the behavioral
and social sciences recommendations for all entering and graduating
medical students is being prepared at this time.
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