The CDC and AAMC: Public Health and Academic Medicine at the Crossroads
Whether it's funding a multimillion-dollar study on health disparities or encouraging a single medical students interest in public health, a new cooperative agreement between the AAMC and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promises to bring together increasingly complementary and interdependent disciplines of medicine and public health.

Educating Tomorrow's Doctors: Spotlight on Award-Winning Teachers
In an effort to ensure that teaching doesn't take a back seat to research and patient care, a number of medical schools are renewing their commitment to education, increasingly including teaching in their definition of scholarship and creating academies and endowments that reserve funds for teaching.

Prescription for Spring Break: A Dose of Medical History
Beaches crowed with coeds not your ideal of a perfect spring break? Don't want to hit the slopes or cart the family to Dinseyland? Let the AAMC Reporter be your guide to interesting, unusual sites and side trips for spring break - or anytime - that shouwcase our nation's medical history.

The Doctor Will See You Now: Are Physician Office Visits Getting Shorter -- or Longer?
A new -- and hotly contested -- study finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, doctors' visits have lengthened in the managed care era.

The Caring Side of Medicine:
Reaching Out to Communities Los Mochis, Mexico

David Clayton, M.D., Third-year resident
Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, Calif.

This series features photographs from medical students and residents selected as winners of the AAMC's 2000-2001 photography contest, "The Caring Side of Medicine: Reaching Out to Communities."

AAMC Scholar Examines
the Role of the Department Chair
An AAMC study seeks to document the qualities of successful department chairs by identifying best practices and highlighting chairs' key role in upholding medical schools' missions.

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