Group on Information Resources (GIR)

Heather Sacks
Director, Constituent Engagement

Katie Beale
Constituent Engagement Senior Specialist

Natalie Floyd
Senior Administrative Specialist

To reach a member of the GIR program staff, please contact GIR@aamc.org. 

Per the GIR Rules and Regulations, “The membership shall consist of persons appointed by the dean of member medical schools, including affiliate and provisional members and persons appointed by chief executive officers of member teaching hospitals or health systems of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The appointed group member(s) shall serve at the pleasure of the respective appointing authority. Each appointing official at an AAMC member institution may appoint up to three voting members to the GIR. Faculty, staff, residents, and students of AAMC member institutions who are not appointed as voting members may join the GIR as non-voting individual members.”

To join the GIR, please email gir@aamc.org.

GIR listservs

The GIR hosts multiple listservs to serve as discussion threads and sources of timely news about technology in academic medicine. If you are a GIR member and would like to post a question to the listserv, please send your message directly to gir@lists.aamc.org.

GIR List

For discussion among the GIR membership on various topics of interest and concern to the community. GIR listserv subscribers can search and browse archived messages (Sign-In Required) exchanged over the discussion list.

AAMC Listserv Policy

For information about AAMC listserv guidelines, please review the AAMC Listserv Policy.

GIR Work Group and Community Lists

Each of the GIR Work Groups and Communities have listservs for their specific membership.

Viewpoints

• Digital Professionalism
• It is Time to Teach Technology: Thoughts on Digital Literacy in the Medical Curriculum
• Learning Analytics: The Possibilities and the Unknowns for Medical Education
• Distributed Medical Education: Lessons in Change
• Do Medical Students, Interns, and Residents Need National Provider Identifiers?
• Web 2.0 and Medical Education: It's Here. Are You Ready?
• The MedBiquitous Specification for Virtual Patient: A Tool to Facilitate Sharing Is Nearing Readiness
• ePortfolios and Assessing Competence: The Western Reserve2 Curriculum
• A Learner-Centered Infrastructure: The Next Generation Learning Management System
• The Data Concierge
• Encouraging Medical Students to Develop Mobile Apps

Webinars

• AAMC Webinar Series: Pulse Check – Medical Education After COVID
• 2024 GIR Community Celebration
• 2021 GIR Community Celebration
• Bend or Break: Lessons Learned about the Strain the COVID-19 Pandemic Puts on a REDCap Installation
• Telehealth Competencies to Train the Current and Future Physician Workforce
• Data Governance in Academic Medicine
• EMRs in Medical Education: Reports from the Field
• FDA Regulations on Mobile Apps and Medical Devices
• GIR Webinar: A Disruptive Connector: Learning & Experimenting with Generative AI Together

Official governance and administration information for members of the Group on Information Resources. 

The GIR awards recognize member contributions to academic medicine information technology.

The Group on Information Resources offers numerous opportunities for members to collaborate and participate in group decisions and governance.

The GIR offers numerous opportunities for members to collaborate and participate through work groups.