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Increasing manmade and natural disasters require new thinking about the role of health care staff, effective triaging, community partnerships, and security.

  • April 17, 2024
Uché Blackstock
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Emergency physician and bestselling author Uché Blackstock, MD, recounts her journey from academic medicine to a career as a social justice entrepreneur.

  • April 11, 2024
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How warmer temperatures and ‘botanical sexism’ are exacerbating seasonal allergies and what allergists recommend to minimize the health effects.

  • April 9, 2024

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Researchers at university labs and hospitals are running trials to find drugs and other treatments to save patients stricken by COVID-19.

  • May 12, 2020
Hussin Rothan, PhD, of Georgia State University investigates the impact of an arthritis drug on stopping the coronavirus from replicating itself in infected cells
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Despite some technical difficulties when registration first opened, there are plenty of slots for students who want to take the exam this year.

  • May 8, 2020
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New editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine seeks to broaden perspectives in the esteemed journal.

  • May 7, 2020
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Viewpoints

I can’t go to class, serve patients, or leave home. I’m scared for my family and don’t know how hard my education will be hit. Here’s how I'm uplifted anyway.

  • May 5, 2020
Tasnim Ahmed doesn't venture out past her yard, volunteering only from home, to avoid potentially exposing her family to the novel coronavirus
AAMCNews

Medical schools are partnering with engineering schools to produce testing reagents, swabs, PPE, and more. Will these relationships endure beyond the pandemic?

  • May 4, 2020
Trevor Kemp, assistant manager of the University of Virginia School of Architecture’s FabLab, and Melissa Goldman, manager of the FabLab, prepare plastic film to be cut for face shields
Podcast

David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC president and CEO, talks with Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  • May 1, 2020
Beyond the White Coat with David J. Skorton
Press Release

David Skorton, MD, president and CEO of the AAMC, issued the following statement on regulatory waivers and rule changes released by CMS.

  • May 1, 2020
Viewpoints

COVID-19 has taken an outsized toll on communities of color. We must continue to educate our students on the health inequities that contributed.

  • April 30, 2020
Selwyn Vickers, MD, senior vice president of medicine and dean of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, talks with students before the pandemic
Viewpoints

A resident laments the loss of patient-provider connection during the pandemic. What happens to care when you can’t touch — or even see each other’s faces?

  • April 29, 2020
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Here’s what the public thinks about academic medicine, the doctor shortage, health equity, holistic review, and what they value in a physician.

  • April 27, 2020
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