In December 2024, the AAMC convened a new, national medical education collaborative — called the National Collaborative to Improve the Transition to Residency (NCITTR) — to accelerate improvements in the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education (UME-GME). Although much work has been done in recent years and since the 2021 release of the Undergraduate Medical Education-Graduate Medical Education Review Committee (UGRC) recommendations (PDF), we believe we can achieve greater progress by convening and working even more collaboratively across the medical education community.
The goals of this virtual collaborative are to:
- Identify and raise the visibility of complex challenges, outstanding gaps, and ongoing needs that require a collective response to improve the transition to residency (TTR) ecosystem.
- Accelerate progress on shared priorities and solutions to help improve TTR while avoiding unnecessary duplication of efforts.
- Learn with and from each other’s efforts across the TTR community.
- Enhance communications across the TTR community.
Recognizing that no one organization can address this recommendation alone, the AAMC formed the NCITTR with representatives from other national organizations, societies, and groups across the UME-GME continuum. The NCITTR biannual meetings provide an opportunity for organizational representatives to share their recent and upcoming activities in improving TTR. In addition to keeping us better informed, we intend to identify strategies for working even more collaboratively across the field.
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