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AAMC Leads

AAMC Leads is a collection of articles that express the opinions and positions of the AAMC on the most timely issues affecting academic medicine today. 

From advocacy to community engagement to research, AAMC Leads highlights the work of the AAMC in leading and serving America’s medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of faculty members, students, resident physicians, and biomedical researchers who make up the academic medicine community. 

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Proposed cuts to Medicaid would harm patients and hospitals

One in 5 Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, including 40 million children. Proposed cuts would hurt not only patients but the hospitals that care for them.

  • April 29, 2025
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Congress must support robust federal funding for the NIH

NIH-funded research supports scientific discovery that benefits millions of Americans.

  • Feb. 4, 2025
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The AAMC is leading dramatic improvements in the transition to residency. This is just the start.

Enhancements to ERAS® and Residency Explorer™, and greater collaboration with specialties, have led to a decline in residency applications per applicant.

  • Jan. 9, 2025
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Congress must uphold nonprofit hospitals’ tax-exempt status

Nonprofit teaching hospitals use their tax-exempt status to offset the cost of medical education, training, complex clinical services, and charity care.

  • Dec. 3, 2024
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