Medical Education
Make the AAMC your medical education home. Explore what we have to offer, from learning events, trainings, and professional development conferences to programs, initiatives, and scholarship on key and emerging topics. Get involved, advance your career, and help move the field of medical education forward.
Areas of Focus
Additional Initiatives and Programs
- Cultivating Excellence in Medical Education
- Climate Action and Sustainability in Academic Medicine
- Curriculum Resources
- The Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities in Medical Education
- Interprofessional Education Collaborations and Resources
- Medical Education's Active Response to the Opioid Epidemic and Substance Use Disorders
- Medical School Wellness Curriculum Collection
- Mitigating Health Misinformation Through Medical Education
- Public and Population Health Resources
- Reproductive Health Care and Education
Admissions and Student Affairs Programs and Resources
Connect with Colleagues
The AAMC convenes affinity groups, programs, and virtual communities that provide individuals at member institutions access to professional and leadership development, networking, and collaboration opportunities. Learn more about getting involved.
The GEA advances medical education and educators through faculty and curriculum development, scholarship, research, and assessment.
The GIR promotes the use of IT and information resources in academic medicine across all of the missions and the institutional level.
GSA convenes leaders in medical school admissions, student affairs, diversity affairs, financial aid and student records to address key student services issues.
The MedBiquitous Program establishes a common language, understood by both people and machines, that enables data- and resource-sharing across organizations in health professions education and credentialing.
Engage with colleagues through discussion threads around timely questions and topics of interest and find and share useful resources. Communities include AI; Arts and Humanities; Climate Action; Curriculum; and Staff Professionals Across the Continuum.
Develop as a Scholar and Share Your Scholarship
Attend an Event
The AAMC is committed to providing learning opportunities for faculty and professional staff across medical education. Learn more about these webinars, meetings, and other learning events.
Listen to the “Academic Medicine Podcast"
Go beyond the pages of Academic Medicine with stories and conversations to expand your thinking about the issues shaping medical schools and teaching hospitals today. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Episode transcripts are also available.
Follow Us on Social Media
- @AlisonWhelanMD and Alison Whelan on LinkedIn — Alison Whelan, MD, chief academic officer
- @AcadMedJournal and Academic Medicine Journal on LinkedIn — a peer-reviewed journal advancing academic medicine through scholarship
- @MedEdPORTAL — the open-access, MEDLINE-indexed journal of teaching and learning resources
- @MedBiquitous — the standards development program of the AAMC
- @AAMCtoday and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) on LinkedIn — news, insights, and discussions from across the AAMC