Initiatives in Medical Education
Serving Applicants, Medical Students, and Residents
Compact Between Resident Physicians and Their Teachers
The Compact outlines the fundamental principles of graduate medical education and reaffirms the major commitments of residents and faculty to the educational process, to each other and to the patients they serve.
Annual Awards for Medical Students
Three programs coordinated by the AAMC offer awards for community service
projects, outstanding academic achievement, and innovations in health
promotion and disease prevention.
Supporting Faculty and Administration
MedEdPORTAL
This Web-based tool promotes collaboration across disciplines and institutions
by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational materials,
knowledge, and solutions.
Annual Awards for Faculty and Staff
Several AAMC awards recognize outstanding contributions by faculty and
staff to medical education each year—from exemplifying caring and compassion
in teaching to promoting justice in medical education and health care.
eFolio: A Secure Personal Data Manager Serving Physicians (PDF, 21 pages)
This report from an October 2007 conference—co-sponsored by the AAMC, Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education,
Federation of State Medical Boards,
and National Board of Medical Examiners—outlines a vision
for a learner-centered national electronic portfolio framework that would span the education
and training continuum of all physicians.
Workforce
Center for Workforce Studies
Established in July 2004, the assesses the supply, demand,
use, and distribution of U.S. physicians, increase the collection of
relevant data on their numbers, and help determine the AAMC's future
agenda regarding physician supply.
Physician Workforce Research Conference
Curriculum
Clinical Skills Education Recommendations
Clinical skills education is key to ensuring that tomorrow's doctors are prepared for specialty training and clinical practice. The AAMC has examined this issue through several initiatives and expert panels.
AAMC Project on the Clinical Education of Medical Students
Representatives from organizations concerned with clerkship education
make up a task force to identify core clinical skills that all medical
students should have achieved on graduation. Further initiatives will
include identification of effective teaching and evaluation methods,
associated faculty development, and resident as teacher educational
programs.
Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT)
TACCT is a self-administered assessment tool that medical schools can use to assess and enhance their cultural competence educational
programs. AAMC developed TACCT with the support of a Commonwealth
Fund grant.
Geriatrics and Geriatric Medicine Curriculum
Sponsored by the John A. Hartford Foundation, grants awards to U.S.
medical schools to enhance the gerontology and geriatric curricula.
Grantees provide medical students with the necessary skills to deliver
high quality, compassionate care to the nation's burgeoning elderly
population, and to effectively handle the complex issues associated
with end-of-life care.
Preparedness
Tools and information to assist medical schools and teaching hospitals
in preparing the physician workforce to respond to large scale threats
to public health.
Professionalism
Several AAMC initiatives assist medical schools in educating students
about professionalism and other key physician attributes. These include:
Technology in Medical Education
MedEdPORTAL
This Web-based tool promotes collaboration across disciplines and
institutions by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational
materials, knowledge, and solutions.
eFolio: A Secure Personal Data Manager Serving Physicians (PDF, 21 pages)
This report from an October 2007 conference—co-sponsored by the AAMC, Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education,
Federation of State Medical Boards,
and National Board of Medical Examiners—outlines a vision
for a learner-centered national electronic portfolio framework that would span the education
and training continuum of all physicians.
CurrMIT® (Curriculum Management and Information Tool)
This password-protected online
database
offers support services to help medical schools manage and report on their
curriculum and to learn about educational programs at other medical
schools.
Graduation Questionnaire (GQ)
Administered
to graduating medical students, the GQ data assists medical schools in evaluating
their educational programs.
MED-ED
Listserve
This listserve is for developers and users of medical education software in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.
Diversity in Medical Education
AspiringDocs.org
This outreach campaign is designed to raise awareness of the critical need for more diversity in medicine and to encourage well-prepared African-American, Latino/a, and Native American students to apply to and enroll in medical school.
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program (SMDEP)
Sponsors promising, highly motivated students from diverse backgrounds
for a six-week education program at various medical schools. The program
introduces students to medical school curriculum and helps them prepare
for the application process. Made possible by The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
Expanded Minority Admissions Exercise (EMAE)
Raises awareness about the importance of non-cognitive strengths of
applicants to help those involved in the admissions process select
students with a high likelihood of success.
Health Professions Partnerships Initiative (HPPI)
Encourages young people from all backgrounds to explore a career in
medicine through collaborative early-intervention programs. Made possible
by grants from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation.
Institute for Improving Medical Education
Institute
for Improving Medical Education
The institute convenes expert panels to: provide guidance on innovative approaches to educating doctors; develop grant programs to support the development and implementation of innovations in education; develop and disseminate position papers; organize forums to focus on policy issues; and build coalitions willing to work toward change.
International Medical Education
International Opportunities in Medical Education
This online resource lists international medical education opportunities at U.S. and Canadian allopathic medical schools. The listing is a collaboration between the AAMC, the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Researc (FAIMER), and the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC). The listing contains details on the extent and nature of international opportunities for medical students, residents, and faculty.
Additional AAMC initiatives that focus on enhancing collaboration with
the medical education community globally include:
- a project
with University of South Florida and University of Nevada and the medical
schools of the Central Asia republics;
- a one-month fellowship for international
medical school faculty; and
- a database of the opportunities
for medical students to participate in exchange programs internationally.
Interprofessional Education
The AAMC has convened representatives from allopathic and osteopathic
medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health to respond to the need
to transform care and education across the health professions. The Interprofessional
Education Working Group will address the concept, proof of benefit,
and curricular changes necessary to remove barriers to effective interprofessional
care and education.
Project Medical Education
This educational program shows members of Congress and other policymakers
first-hand how medical education benefits all Americans, through visits
to medical schools and teaching hospitals where they assume the roles
of medical student, resident, and physician. More >>
Public Health
AAMC-CDC Cooperative Agreement
A partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
to improve and increase collaborations between public health and medicine
by allowing AAMC member institutions to participate more fully in the
CDC's extramural research activities.
Directory of MD/MPH Educational Opportunities
This directory identifies opportunities for future and current medical students who would like to pursue a public health degree. It provides information on curriculum length and focus, MPH-granting institution, tuition policy, and contact information for each participating school.
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