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.
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.
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
AAMC Background Check Service
A beta test of AAMC-facilitated criminal background check service has been extended for the 2009
cycle. A question regarding drug testing is to be added.
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 panel
(PDF) of distinguished medical school and undergraduate scientist-educators
have recommended both medical school and entering science
competencies. The report was released June 2009.
FACTS: Applicants, Matriculants, Graduates, and Residency Applicants
The AAMC provides
annual data on applicants and matriculants, enrollment and graduates,
M.D./Ph.D. students, and the Electronic Residency Application
Service (ERAS).
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 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. A report on the behavioral
and social sciences recommendations for all entering and graduating
medical students is being prepared at this time.
Revising Medical School Prerequisites
The GSA Committee on
Admissions is currently reviewing medical school prerequisites.
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