Resources for GSA Members
General
Medical
Students with Disabilities: A Generation of Practice
This publication provides an overview of the status of the law today regarding
students with disabilities. Guidance provided in the document is not a
substitute for case-specific legal advice. 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.
Executive Summary of ADA Booklet
This 1993 handbook provides an overview of the ADA and the antecedent
Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
GSA Meeting Types (PDF, 2 pages)
This document, outlining the purpose, audience, format, and content
of various AAMC/GSA meetings, was approved at the January 31, 2002, GSA
Steering Committee Meeting.
Careers in Medicine
A career planning program designed to assist students in choosing a specialty
Chemical Impairment Guidelines
These guidelines are intended to assist medical schools in the development
of policies and programs to insure appropriate care for any medical students
who are impaired due to chemical abuse.
Extramural Electives Compendium—Elective
Program Coordinator Login (AAMC Login required)
Extramural Electives
Compendium—Public Search Page
The Extramural Electives Compendium (EEC) contains essential information
for medical students about elective opportunities at Liaison Committee
on Medical Education (LCME)-accredited medical schools in the United States
and Canada. Contact Danielle Gregory at dgregory@aamc.org
for any other additional information you may required.
Infectious
Disease Handbook for Medical School Student Affairs Officers (Second
Edition)
This handbook is intended as a resource for those who are concerned about
the transmission of infectious diseases in the health care setting. It
contains information about common hospital-acquired agents, methods of
transmission, risks of infectivity, and control/prevention procedures.
Institutional Programs and Educational
Activities to Address the Needs of GLBT Students and Patients (PDF,
2 pages)
These recommendations address medical school responses to the needs of
and educational programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender
(GLBT) medical students and attitudes toward GLBT students and patients.
Appropriate
Treatment in Medicine (ATM): A Compendium on Medical Student Mistreatment
This compendium provides information to support and enrich program and
policy development at each medical school regarding methods of preventing
student mistreatment and responding promptly to complaints.
The AAMC Roadmap
to Residency: From Application to the Match and Beyond provides comprehensive
information about the process of making application to graduate medical
education programs in the United States. It includes a description of
candidacy requirements, factors involved in specialty choice, possible
criteria for residency selection, and information about matching processes,
program visits, and potential application outcomes, as well as about the
transition from medical school to residency. The document also includes
a bibliography of valuable print resources and a "Webliography"
of useful Web resources. It was created to provide information for all
applicants to U.S. residency programs, whether they are enrolled in, or
graduates of, medical schools located in the United States or in other
countries.
AAMC Recommended Reading: Group
on Student Affairs
Admissions
AAMC Recommendations
for Medical School Admission Officers
The recommended procedures to be followed by medical school admission
officers in the application and admission processes at AAMC-member medical
schools.
AAMC Recommendations
for Medical School Applicants
The recommended procedures to be followed by medical school applicants
in the application and admission processes at AAMC-member medical schools.
Postbaccalaureate Premedical
Programs (AAMC Login Required)
Postbaccalaureate Premedical
Programs—Searchable Database
A number of schools now offer postbaccalaureate premedical programs designed
to assist individuals in preparing for medical school. This database can
be searched by state, school/institution name, undergraduate or graduate
program, degree type and special program focus.
Transfer Policies for Applicants
(AAMC Login Required)
Transfer Policies for
Applicants—Public
Search Page
This application has been designed to allow administrators access to add
new transfer policy records or update their existing records. The public
search page gives students access to an online database of medical school
transfer policy records.
Handbook for Student Admissions Officers
The Handbook for Admissions Officers compiles key information, examples
of best office practices, and general wisdom based on decades of experience.
The members of the 2002-2003 GSA National Committee on Admissions, along
with other experienced admissions office personnel, created this document
as a resource guide for both the new and the experienced admissions officer.
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Financial Aid
Financial Education and Wellness
This AAMC COSFA-developed curriculum helps medical students gain the practical
knowledge and tools necessary to make effective financial decisions. PowerPoint
slide shows explain five key financial competencies for financial management.
(MD)2—Monetary
Decisions for Medical Doctors
An electronic resource manual for financial planning throughout a medical
career
Financial Aid Forms
Required by Medical Schools—Financial
Aid Personnel Login (AAMC Login required)
Financial Aid Forms
Required by Medical Schools—
Public Search Page
This application has been designed to allow financial aid personnel to
add their school's financial aid filing requirements to our online database.
The online search tool is available to the public. Contact Denine Hales
at dhales@aamc.org
to request a password or for more information.
Satisfactory Academic Progress (PDF,
14 pages)
Essentials for compliance at medical schools
State Loan and Other
Loan Repayment/Forgiveness and Scholarship Programs
A compilation of U.S. programs that offer financial assistance, in the
form of loan repayments, for a commitment to service
Statement of Effective Interactions
in Financial Aid (PDF, 4 pages)
This document contains recommendations for consideration by the medical
school financial aid community as medical schools establish institutional
guidelines for interactions between schools and their commercial partners
in financial aid.
Minority Affairs
GSA-MAS Guidelines for the Structure and
Functions of Minority Affairs Offices at U.S. Medical Schools
Helpful information to help minority affairs offices develop plans or
to review the functions of an existing office
Minorities in Medicine
Resources for minorities considering a career in medicine
Summer Medical and Dental
Education Program (SMDEP)
Summer educational enhancement program designed to help promising students
interested in promoting diversity within medicine gain admission to medical
school.
Minority Faculty
Career Development Seminar
The Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar program is designed for
junior faculty (senior fellows, instructors, and assistant professors)
who are members of underrepresented minority groups and who aspire to
positions of leadership in academic medicine.
DHHS Secretary's
Award for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 2003-2004
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with
the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions, announces
the 2003-2004 competition for student papers for the Secretary's Award
for Innovations in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Student Affairs
A Guide to the Preparation of the Medical Student
Performance Evaluation
This guide introduces the Medical Student Performance Evaluation, which
replaces the former "Dean's Letter." Initiated in 2002, the MSPE is the
means by which medical schools provide an assessment of students' academic
performance and professional attributes in medical school to graduate
medical education program directors as a component of the residency application
process. A Professionalism
Assessment Form (PDF, 2 pages) was developed by the MSPE
Advisory Committee and is made available for adoption or adaptation by
medical schools desiring to assess and report on the professionalism attributes
of their students.
Student Health Services Guidelines (1992,
"Immunizations" Revised 2006) (PDF, 3 pages)
A listing of health service guidelines, approved in 1992 and revised in
2006, for general topics, insurance, mental health, chemical dependency,
immunization, and occupational exposure.
Student Healthcare and Insurance
Program Recommendations (2005) (PDF, 2 pages)
Eighteen additional recommendations, approved in 2005, that address medical
student healthcare and health, liability, evacuation, and disability insurance.
Student Mistreatment Guidelines
A discussion about the medical learning environments expectation to facilitate
students' acquisition of the professional and collegial attitudes necessary
for effective, caring, and compassionate health care.
Summer Make-Up Courses Compendium
This searchable database is available for search during the spring semester
of each academic year.
Guidelines for the Consideration
of Applications for Transfer or Advanced Standing (PDF, 2 pages)
These guidelines, by the Group on Student Affairs Steering Committee,
were established to assist medical schools in the handling of applications.
Transfer Policies for
Applicants - Public Search Page
Search through our online database of medical school transfer policy records.
GSA Crisis Response and Intervention Education
Resource (GSA-CRIER)
View the GSA-CRIER, the resource document on crisis management being developed
for the GSA community by the GSA Committee on Student Affairs (COSA).
Handbook for Student Affairs Officers
This Handbook for Student Affairs Officers is a compilation of information
regarding the roles, responsibilities, and critical functions of the Student
Affairs officer, best practices of Student Affairs offices, and resources
available for Student Affairs personnel. The GSA National Committee on
Student Affairs created this document as a resource guide for both the
new and experienced Student Affairs officer, as well as for members of
their professional and administrative staffs.
Student Records
Guidelines for Maintaining
Active and Permanent Individual Student Records (PDF, 3 pages)
These guidelines (approved by the AAMC Executive Council in February 2005)
were developed by the GSA National Committee on Student Records to assist
medical school student records officers in developing and implementing
medical school policies relating to the maintenance of academic records
for currently enrolled students, former students, and graduates.
Guidelines for Medical School Regarding Academic
Transcripts (Revised 2006) (PDF, 5 pages)
Revised guidelines for medical schools regarding academic transcripts
GME Track
This resident database and tracking system assists GME administrators
and program directors in the collection and management of GME data.
Student Records System (SRS)
(AAMC Login required)
This centralized, online enrollment information enables all medical school
student records administrators to track all individual students during
their progress from matriculation through graduation. The SRS also supports
the LCME in reporting enrollment measures. A more extensive introduction
to the SRS is available.
Student Records Administrators Handbook
This handbook, first prepared by the Group on Student Affairs (GSA) ad
hoc Committee on Medical Licensure (1996-97) and revised by the GSA National
Committee on Student Records (in 1998 and 2001), is intended as a resource
guide for medical school registrars, as well as a source of general information
for every student affairs professional. This handbook is available as
a PDF and in paper format from the Section for Student Services. Contact
Danielle Gregory at dgregory@aamc.org
to request a hard copy.
Visiting Student Guidelines:
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