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Damon Tweedy presenting about DEI
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The past is never fully past: A case for DEI in medical education

Curtailing training in diversity, equity, and inclusion risks ignoring the shadow of history that still haunts many Black patients, argues Damon Tweedy, MD.

  • Sept. 18, 2024
2024 AAMC Awards
AAMCNews
Celebrating the 2024 AAMC Award winners

These distinguished academicians have had an outsize impact on medical education, medical research, and patient care.

  • Sept. 17, 2024
Laurel Braitman, PhD, leads a workshop
AAMCNews
Storytelling for health care workers: “If you aren’t scared, you can’t be brave”

Laurel Braitman, PhD, started a virtual writing group at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s still going strong.

  • Sept. 11, 2024
Anupam “Bapu” Jena speaking on stage.
AAMCNews
How much does randomness impact your health?

Internal medicine physician and economist Anupam “Bapu” Jena, MD, shares how natural experiments expose the role chance can play in medicine.

  • Sept. 4, 2024

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Press Release
Joint AAMC, AHA Statement on NASEM Report on Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 Vaccine

AAMC and AHA released a statement supporting the NASEM report on equitable allocation of COVID-19 vaccines.

  • Oct. 2, 2020
AAMCNews
Hurricanes, wildfires, and an ongoing pandemic: How academic medical centers are coping with competing crises

Medical centers in Washington, Oregon, and Alabama use lessons learned from COVID-19 response to manage natural disasters but worry about long-term impact.

  • Oct. 1, 2020
Portland residents step outside to view the wildfire smoke casting a colored haze over a neighborhood on Sept. 9, 2020.
Press Release
AAMC Statement on Passage of Continuing Resolution

AAMC Statement on the passage of of the continuing resolution (CR) by the House of Representatives and Senate to keep the government open until Dec. 11

  • Sept. 30, 2020
AAMCNews
Interest in hospital-at-home programs explodes during COVID-19

To free up beds and protect vulnerable patients, hospitals are sending patients home with IVs, EKG devices, and other mainstays of acute care. Will it last?

  • Sept. 29, 2020
A provider with Atrium Health’s COVID-19 Virtual Hospital delivers oxygen, IV medications, and other services to a patient in their home. The program has helped more than 17,000 people.
Press Release
AAMC Statement on Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

The AAMC issued this statement in response to the Administration's executive order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping.

  • Sept. 24, 2020
Two women looking at a tablet
AAMCNews
Confronting race in diagnosis: Medical students call for reexamining how kidney function is estimated

Medical students take the lead in calling for reexamination of assumptions about race used in common diagnostic formulas.

  • Sept. 24, 2020
Human kidney cross section
Viewpoints
Medical schools, it’s time to get real about becoming anti-racist

Like many American institutions, medicine has had to confront anti-Black racism during this tumultuous year. A senior medical student explains.

  • Sept. 23, 2020
Taiwo Alonge speaks to students and faculty at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City during a teach-in he co-organized during his first year of medical school in 2017.
AAMCNews
Teaching hospitals help businesses and schools safely reopen — and stay open

New COVID-19 consulting services tap staff expertise to develop plans, visit sites, and educate employees to prevent viral spread.

  • Sept. 22, 2020
A sea turtle enjoys the company of people again at The Florida Aquarium. Courtesy of The Florida Aquarium.
AAMCNews
Celebrating 10 Hispanic pioneers in medicine

These leaders led advances in medicine and research that led to Nobel Prizes, life-changing cures, and better care for millions. Read their amazing stories.

  • Sept. 17, 2020
A collage of Hispanic pioneers in Medicine
Podcast
Diagnosing Our National Disease

David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about racism in academic medicine.

  • Sept. 17, 2020
Lonnie Bunch in Beyond the White Coat podcast