Resources
AspiringDocs.org
AspiringDocs.org is an ongoing campaign to encourage more
African American, Latino/a, 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.
Medical
School Expansion: Challenges and Strategies
This 2008
AAMC publication describes challenges that medical schools
face as they expand medical student class size and the strategies
they employ to overcome those challenges. This book provides
insight into the complex process of expansion in the areas
of curriculum, faculty, student affairs, finances, communication,
partnering, and planning.
Medical
School Tuition and Young Physician Indebtedness
This 2007 report analyzes U.S. medical school graduates' indebtedness
and young physician's ability to repay their debt. The latest
data show that problems identified in the first report are
continuing today.
Three
Pathways to a Physician Career
This Academic Medicine article shows data on the
entire U.S. applicant pool to U.S. allopathic, osteopathic,
and international medical schools.
What
Influences Medical Student and Resident Choices?
Unlike many Western nations, the United States does not manage
or actively regulate the number, type, or geographic distribution
of its physician workforce. As with most free markets, equitable
distribution is at risk without well-informed, evidence-based
policies and incentives capable of promoting equitable access
to appropriate care. With the generous support of the Josiah
Macy Jr. Foundation, the Robert Graham Center and critical
partners completed the most comprehensive study of the factors
affecting student and resident choices over the last 30 years.
Services
Career Fairs Calendar
The Career
Fairs Calendar allows students to review and plan attendance
for upcoming fairs, while also helping to decrease date overlap
for future career fairs.
New Medical Schools
The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), jointly
managed by the AAMC and the American Medical Association (AMA),
maintains information on the Institutions with Developing Medical Education Programs that have applied for medical school accreditation.
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.
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Works in Progress and Ongoing Initiatives
AAMC/HHMI
Scientific Foundation for Future Physicians
The AAMC and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) partnered
to examine the natural science competencies that a graduating
physician needs to practice science-based medicine in the
21st century. A committee (PDF)
of distinguished medical school and undergraduate scientist-educators
have recommended both medical school and entering science
competencies. The report was released June 2009.
Applicant Database and Continuing Studies of the
Applicant Pool
The Student Records Services section of the AAMC provides
annual updates (FACTS)
on applicants and matriculants, enrollment and graduates,
M.D./Ph.D. students, and the Electronic Residency Application
Service (ERAS).
Center for Workforce Studies
Current evidence suggests that the United States is headed
toward an aggregate shortage of physicians. The AAMC established
the Center for Workforce
Studies to assist in the effort to increase U.S. medical
school capacity, and to educate and train physicians. The
nation must begin now to increase medical school and GME capacity
to meet the needs of the nation in 2015
and beyond (see The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2025).
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
The Holistic
Review Advisory Committee works to create diversity and
align admissions and medical schools missions. 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
Revising Medical School Prerequisites
The GSA Committee on
Admissions is currently reviewing medical school prerequisites.
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