Access these AAMC and other resources to further support building and sustaining community-academic partnerships in academic medicine:
- The Principles of Trustworthiness Toolkit provides a community-driven framework and offers practical tools that organizations can use to become more trustworthy partners.
- The Community Impact Tracker is a free coordination tool for AAMC-member institutions to help break down silos, build trust with the community, and quantify the scope of community engagement activities for advocacy, fundraising, and reporting.
- Call for Submissions: Community Engagement offers an opportunity to submit educational resources to MedEdPORTAL® that promote community-engaged scholarship in medical education.
- Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health is a paradigm to assess the quality and impact of meaningful community engagement across various sectors and partnerships.
- "Shifting Academic Health Centers From a Culture of Community Service to Community Engagement and Integration ," published in Academic Medicine, explores how academic health centers can integrate meaningful community engagement into their missions, priorities, policies, and practices.
The pillars and recommendations presented in Building and Sustaining Community-Academic Partnerships in Academic Medicine are informed by the lessons and experiences of the 2023-2025 AAMC Nurturing Experiences for Tomorrow’s Community Leaders (NEXT) Grant recipients and their community partner organizations and draw on the following relevant literature on community-academic partnerships:
- Now Is Our Time to Act: Why Academic Medicine Must Embrace Community Collaboration as Its Fourth Mission
- Principles of Community Engagement: 3rd Edition (PDF)
- Institutional Readiness for Community-University Alliances: Perspectives on Repatriation
- Ending “domestic helicopter research”
- Community-Academic Partnerships: A Systematic Review of the State of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research
- Promoting and advocating for ethical community engagement: Transparency in the community-engaged research spectrum
- Rewarding Faculty Publicly-Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Policies at Carnegie Classified Community Engagement Institutions: A Descriptive Analysis
- Integrating expert patients perspectives on the processes of engaging them in early medical education
- Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health