Diversity and Inclusion

What's New

Assessing Change: Evaluating Cultural Competence Education and Training

To help educators identify curricular strategies and evaluation tools for re-use or enhancement, the AAMC commissioned an expert panel to review cultural competence studies that measured learner changes in attitudes, knowledge, and skills.  This guide, which is based on the panel’s findings, provides these resources for educators and researchers.

AAMC AHEAD 2015 RFP: Medical-Legal Partnerships

The AAMC Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) initiative seeks to identify, evaluate, and disseminate effective and replicable AAMC-member institution practices that improve community health and reduce health inequities. Applications are now being accepted for established medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) to develop and disseminate a body of evidence that measures the impact of their MLP on health inequities at the local level.

Public Health Pathways

AAMC is pleased to announce the launch of a new online searchable database of domestic and international public health training opportunities for pre-med students, medical students,  residents, and early career physicians.  This collection will assist students and physicians to enhance and expand their understanding of the social and environmental factors that influence the health of the people and communities they serve.

Diversity Policy and Programs: Who We Are, What We Do, Where We’re Going

In this third issue of our annual report, the Diversity Policy and Programs (DPP) unit of the AAMC is proud to share a summary of our latest projects, publications, and partnerships. Collectively, this work serves as our contribution to building capacity within the academic medicine community to realize the vision of diversity and inclusion as drivers of institutional excellence.

Read the 2014 DPP Annual Report 

A Resource for Medical Educators: Implementing Curricular and Institutional Climate Changes to Improve Health Care for Individuals Who Are LGBT, Gender Nonconforming, or Born with DSD

This groundbreaking publication was developed to fill that gap and is based on solid educational and assessment practices and theories. It is designed to assist institutions in implementing curricular and climate change in medical educational institutions or programs.

Facts & Figures 2014

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is pleased to present Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts and Figures 2014, the 18th report in the Facts & Figures Data Series. The 2014 report is also the inaugural of the online edition of the series. This new interactive format will increase the accessibility and interactivity of data pertaining to the demographic make-up of the nation's physicians. To experience the full report, please visit: aamcdiversityfactsandfigures.org