External Relations Group

The External Relations Group comprises alumni relations, communications, community relations, development, and marketing professionals. It develops and disseminates resources, best practices, educational opportunities, and peer-to-peer connections that enable members to increase awareness, understanding, and support among their institutional communities and the public, media, policymakers, alumni, and donors. It also fosters members’ professional growth and development, interaction and collaboration within the external relations community, and communication between the AAMC and its institutional members.

The 2027 External Relations Group Awards for Excellence is open! The Awards for Excellence honor and celebrate the most creative and effective approaches used to promote academic medicine through alumni relations, communications, community relations, development, and marketing programs and projects. Submit your work and gain national recognition for the strategy, creativity, and talent you and your teams exhibit every day as you work to advance medicine, research, education, and community collaborations at your institutions. Accepting submissions through October 15, 11:59 p.m. PT.

Meet your peers across external relations who are making an impact in academic medicine in the Member Spotlight.