Supporting Faculty and Administration
AAMC Admissions Initiatives: Student Selection
AAMC Grants and Awards
Several annual AAMC awards recognize outstanding contributions by faculty and
staff to medical education—from exemplifying caring and compassion
in teaching to promoting justice in medical education and health care.
Continuing Education and Performance Improvement
This site is intended for those who plan and participate in continuing education and improvement programs. It attempts to guide continuing medical education as it moves from a primarily conference-based model to one which employs best educational methods and quality improvement and performance improvement principles to close the clinical care gap.
Councils, Organizations, and Professional Development Groups
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.
MedEdPORTAL
This Web-based tool promotes collaboration across disciplines and institutions
by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational materials,
knowledge, and solutions.
Workforce
AAMC Admissions Initiatives: Medical School and Physician Workforce Expansion
With an aging American population and many physicians approaching retirement age, the United States is expected to experience a significant physician shortage in the very near future. Since 2006, the AAMC has advocated for medical school expansion in the United States.
Annual AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference
Since 2005, this conference is a forum for the nation's physician workforce researchers to gather, network, and share their latest findings on physician workforce supply and demand.
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.
Technology in Medical Education
eFolio: A Secure Personal Data Manager Serving Physicians (PDF, 21 pages)
This report outlines a vision
for a learner-centered national electronic portfolio framework that would span the education
and training continuum of all physicians.
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
AAMC Admissions Initiatives: Diversity
With an increasingly diverse United States, we must continue to increase the diversity of physicians serving this population. The AAMC embraces a broad definition of diversity that includes racial and ethnic diversity, socioeconomic diversity, diversity in sexual orientation, and geographic diversity.
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 program on-campus at medical schools across the country. 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.
International Medical Education
International Opportunities in Medical Education
This listing, which compiles international medical education opportunities at U.S. and Canadian allopathic medical schools, is a collaboration between the AAMC, the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), and the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC).
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 international exchange programs for medical students
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
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Serving Applicants, Medical Students, and Residents
AAMC Grants and Awards
Three annual programs coordinated by the AAMC offer awards for community service
projects, outstanding academic achievement, and innovations in health
promotion and disease prevention.
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.
Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR)
The mission of the AAMC's Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR) is to improve resident physician education and training for the purpose of improving the quality of health care.
Organization of Student Representatives (OSR)
The OSR is charged with the representation of the undergraduate medical student body of the U.S. to the academic medicine community.
Curriculum
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.
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.
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.
MedEdPORTAL
This Web-based tool promotes collaboration across disciplines and
institutions by facilitating the exchange of peer reviewed educational
materials, knowledge, and solutions.
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.
Professionalism
A Flag In The Wind
A scholarly analysis of the topic of professionalism as it is applied to the teaching and practice of medicine (2003)
Embedding Professionalism in Medical Education
This report summarizes expert panel discussions and recommendations on the assessment
of professionalism from a conference co-sponsored by the AAMC and the National Board of Medical Examiners. (2002)
Industry Funding of Medical Education: Report of an AAMC Task Force
This report by the Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education urges medical schools and teaching hospitals to adopt policies that prohibit drug industry gifts and services to physicians, faculty, residents, and students, and to curtail the involvement of industry in continuing medical education activities.
Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP)
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.
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.
Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Centers (RMPHEC) and RMPHEC-GME
Through AAMC's cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 11 Regional Medicine-Public Health Education Centers (RMPHECs) and 13 RMPHEC-Graduate Medical Education (GME) sites were established to improve population health and public health education for medical students and residents, respectively. RMPHEC and RMPHEC-GME grantees have worked with local and state public health agencies to create curricular materials and experiences to better prepare physicians to consider population health perspectives and to collaborate with the public health community in order to address societal health challenges.
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.
Project Medical Education educates members of Congress and other policymakers
first-hand about 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.
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