The AAMC seeks to improve the integration of public and population health concepts into medical education, and to enhance and expand a culturally informed health workforce that’s representative of the general population.
Initiatives
AAMC Nurturing Experiences for Tomorrow’s Community Leaders (NEXT) Grant
The AAMC NEXT Grant provides funding to institutions to develop or enhance a learning opportunity for medical students, residents, and other interprofessional learners, along with community partners, to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.
VaccineVoices
VaccineVoices is a site where the AAMC’s member institutions can find practical tools and guidance and learn from the experiences of others as they work to increase vaccine confidence among health care personnel and in their communities.
Building a Systems Approach to Community Health for Academic Health Centers
The AAMC is helping academic health centers understand and address the unique health care needs of their patients and communities by building the centers' capacity to create community health systems. These community health systems will strategically weave together institutional community health initiatives and partnerships with local organizations.
Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine
Climate change is the greatest public health threat of the 21st century. And the health care sector is part of the problem, responsible for almost 4.4% of carbon pollution worldwide and 8.5% in the United States. Academic health systems and medical schools are responding to the climate crisis in meaningful ways. Likewise, the AAMC has integrated climate action into its core work, aligned with the AAMC Strategic Plan.
Medical Education's Active Response to the Opioid Epidemic
The AAMC shares the successful practices and approaches of educators, clinicians, and future physicians at its member institutions as they work to address the opioid epidemic.
Tools and Resources
With webinars on the social determinants of health, nutrition, cross-sector partnerships and more, this webinar series promotes increased public health awareness and encourages the inclusion of public health perspectives in medical education and practice.
“Beyond the White Coat” Podcast: At the Crossroads: Public Health and Gun Violence
AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, then chair of the Department of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine, now president of Howard University Hospital, have a compelling and informative conversation on gun violence as a public health crisis and how the academic medicine community can come together to address prevention.
MD-MPH and MD-MPP Combined Degree Programs
AAMC provides information and resources on earning a master of public health or master of public policy alongside an MD.
MedEdPORTAL® Population Health Education Modules
MedEdPORTAL® is the AAMC's MEDLINE-indexed, open-access journal of peer-reviewed teaching and learning resources. MedEdPORTAL® publications are stand-alone, complete teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with physician trainees or practitioners.
Navigating a Foodborne Outbreak: Preparation for Interprofessional Practice
This free, self-paced, interactive, online module demonstrates the importance of interprofessional practice among health professionals to improve and protect population health. With over 35,000 users since 2018, this module works as a stand-alone resource or fits into existing curricula.
Public Health Pathways
Public Health Pathways is a directory of domestic and international public health training opportunities in academic, government, and community settings for every level in the education continuum.
Urban Universities for HEALTH (Health Equity through Alignment, Leadership, and Transformation of the Health Workforce) Metrics Generator
The Urban Universities for HEALTH Metrics Generator is an interactive, web-based toolkit to help university leaders obtain a customized list of measures to assist in the evaluation of efforts to enhance and expand a diverse, culturally informed, and prepared health and scientific workforce.
Publications
“Public and Population Health in U.S. Medical Education: A Review of Guidance in Extraordinary Times”
This review provides an inventory of existing guidance to assist educators in establishing public and population health (PPH) as an essential foundation of physician training and practice.
Health Equity in Academic Medicine: Recommendations from an AAMC Community Roundtable in Washington, D.C.
This AAMC report details promising practices, critical challenges, and points for collaboration that medical schools, teaching hospitals, and residency programs across the country can implement to advance optimal health for all in their local communities.
“Teaching Public and Population Health in Medical Education: An Evaluation Framework”
The AAMC convened 20 U.S. medical faculty to develop a framework to measure the effectiveness of public and population health education in medical education programs.
Teaching Residents Population Health Management
This AAMC report profiles successful practices at primary care residency programs to help residency program directors incorporate population health management into education programs.
Academic Medicine Collection: The Role of Academic Medicine in Firearm Injury Prevention
This collection features articles on firearm injury prevention, including descriptions of firearm injury education and discussions about the role of health professionals in responding to this public health crisis.